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Use of punctuation in English

Effective punctuation in English writing involves various marks to clarify meaning, indicate pauses, and separate ideas. The full stop, or period, signals the end of a statement, while the comma is used for separation within sentences to enhance readability.

Use of punctuation in English

Use of punctuation in English

Indentation or blank lines

Beginning of a new paragraph

Triple dot

Incomplete statement

Slash

Indicates a series of alternatives

Question mark

Indicates a question

Exclamation mark

Signalling positive or negative emotion
Exclamatives

The hyphen

Prefixes
Numerals and fractions
Coordination compounds
Noun modification
Compound adjectives
Compound nouns

Capital letters

At the beginning of sentences and quations

Apostrophe

Abbreviations
Contracted forms
Genetive forms

Quotation marks "" ''

Words in a foreign language
Names of books, magazines, newspapers, films, and paintings

Dashes and brackets/prentheses

Separate comment from the rest of the sentence

Full stop (AmE - period)

Decimals
Abbreviations
Initials

Semi-colon

Compound sentences

Colon

Details
Explanations

Comma

Intonation and emphasis
Question tags
Line breaks
Forms of address in letters/emails
Geographical locations
Linking adverbs
Non-restrictive relative clauses and appositions
Adverbial clauses
Adjectives
Lists
Or
And
Coordinate clauses
Nor
Yes
But