Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. English...

Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. The oldest known...

The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point . is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to...

English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts...

The comma (,) is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved...

A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They...

known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many...

Hebrew punctuation is similar to that of English and other Western languages, Modern Hebrew having imported additional punctuation marks from these languages...

Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility...

discussion of adjective clauses in languages other than English, see Relative clause#Examples. The punctuation of an adjective clause depends on whether it is...

') is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe...

Terminal punctuation refers to the punctuation marks used to identify the end of a portion of text. Terminal punctuation marks are also referred to as...

support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Japanese punctuation (Japanese: 約物, Hepburn: yakumono) includes various written marks (besides...

learners learn more efficiently to read and write English. English writing also includes a system of punctuation marks that is similar to those used in most...

The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /. It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names...

talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify...

(then, since), exception (though), and comparison (whereas). Some common English conjunctive adverbs are: accordingly also anyway besides certainly consequently...

may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech...

Punctuation marks are one or two part graphical marks used in writing, denoting tonal progress, pauses, sentence type (syntactic use), abbreviations,...

ellipsis, or ellipsis points,: 19  or colloquially, dot-dot-dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a series of three dots. An ellipsis can be used in...

Writing systems that use Chinese characters also include various punctuation marks, derived from both Chinese and Western sources. Historically, jùdòu...

exclamation mark ! (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate...

The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted...

symbols. Irony punctuation is any form of notation proposed or used to denote irony or sarcasm in written text. Written text, in English and other languages...

today's society. Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation in the English language by mixing humour and instruction. Truss dedicates the...

Paul (March 1995). "The Rise and Fall of the Semicolon: English Punctuation Theory and English Teaching Practice". Applied Linguistics. 16 (1): 1–14. doi:10...

combination of East Asian and European punctuation, while North Korea uses more of the East Asian punctuation style. In the traditional Korean system...

alphabet, arguing that it does not function as a form of punctuation. Hyphens are often used in English compound words. Written compound words may be hyphenated...

typically only use alphanumeric characters and the most commonly used English punctuation marks. Emoticons such as -O-, -3-, -w-, '_', ;_;, T_T, :>, and .V...

differences in punctuation rules. British English is more tolerant of run-on sentences, called "comma splices" in American English, and American English prefers...