Mark
|
Name
|
Example
|
.
|
Full
stop/ period
|
I like
English.
|
,
|
Comma
|
I speak
English, French and
|
;
|
Semi-colon
|
I don’t
often go swimming; I prefer to play tennis
|
:
|
You have
two choices: finish the work today or lose the contract.
|
|
-
|
Hyphen
|
This is
a rather out-of date book
|
_
|
Dash
|
In each
town-London,
|
?
|
Question
mark
|
Where is
Shangri-La?
|
!
|
Exclamation
Mark
|
“Help!”
she cried. “I’m drowning!”
|
/
|
Oblique/slash
|
Please
press your browser’s Refresh/Reload button.
|
“
|
Quotation
marks
|
“I love
you,” she said.
|
‘
|
Apostrophe
|
This is
John’s car.
|
( )
|
Round
bracket
|
I went
to
|
[ ]
|
Square
brackets
|
The newspaper
reported that the hostages [most of them French] had been released.
|
…
|
Ellipsis
|
One
happy customer wrote: “This is the best program…that I have ever seen.”
|
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| summary of punctuation marks |
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