Punctuation marks

Punctuation marks

What are they?

Punctuation marks are symbols which exist in order to show how a sentence is constructed or how it should be read.

14 main punctuation marks

Period

Comma

Colon

Semicolon

Question mark

Exclamation mark

Parentheses

Ellipsis

Square brackets

Quotation marks

Hyphen

Dash

Slash

Apostrophe

Used to end a sentence

Used to save space or remove material that is less relevant.

Small pause in a sentence.

A colon often precedes an explanation or a list.

Can be used between two closely related independent clauses.

Used to mark the start and end of a question.

Used ot mark the start and end of an exclamation.

Used for the marking of the omission of one or more letters

Used within a sentence to include information that is not essential to the main point.

Used to enclose words added by someone other than the speaker.

Used to mark te start and end of a quote.

Used to join words or parts of words.

Used to set off a word or phrase after an independent clause or a parenthetical remark.

Used to represent exclusive or inclusive or, division and fractions.