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Punctuation Marks
Punctuation Marks
MARKS
DEFINITION
• Punctuation is the name of the marks used in writing. They are very essential signs to
understand a sentence in correct way. They represent the expression and feeling in a
sentence.
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FULL STOP
• "How are you?", she asked me. • Commas and periods are always placed
immediately before the closing quotation
mark
• Quotation marks are used at the beginning
and end of a phrase to show that it is being
written exactly as it was originally said or
written
• Quotation marks enclose direct speech – it
can be double or single.
COMMA
• A semicolon represents a pause greater • On Tuesday, the tram was late; the bus
than a comma. Semicolon is used to was early.
separate the independent clauses of a • You can go by and aeroplane, train
compound sentence. Such clauses are
and a taxi; channel tunnel train,
NOT joined by a coordinating
coach, then a short walk; or aeroplane
conjunction (and, but, or nor, for, so,
and car.
yet).
• It separate items in a complex list.
APOSTROPHE
• Brackets set apart a word or phrase • The necklace (which had been in my
added to a sentence to give some family for years) was stolen.
additional information.
DASH
• Indicates additional information, with • She is an author – and a very good one
more emphasis than a comma. too.
• Indicates a pause, especially for effect at • We all know what to expect – the best.
the end of a sentence.
SLASH