A Quick guide to English Punctuation
Punctuation is used to create sense, clarity and stress in sentences.
You use punctuation marks to structure and organise your writing.
The most common of these are:
- . the period (or full stop in British English)
- , the comma,
- ! the exclamation mark
- ? the question mark
- : the colon
- ; and semi-colon
- “ the quote
- ‘ the apostrophe
- - the hyphen and dash
- ( parentheses and brackets.
Capital letters are also used to help us organise meaning and to structure the sense of our writing.
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