Punctuation

Type of Punctuation

• Terminal Points
• Quotations
• Pausing Points
• Hyphens and Dashes
• Other Punctuation

Period

ends a sentence.

Question Mark

end of a direct question. Indirect questions take a period.

Exclamation Mark

end of exclamation terminal point

Comma

indicates a pause or separates grammatical components of the sentence.

Semicolon

indicates a separation between two independent clauses

Colon

indicates a separation between two items

Hyphen

indicates a separation between two words

En dash

indicates a separation between two words

Em dash

indicates a separation between two items

Quotation marks

indicates a separated group

Ellipses

indicates an omission

Brackets

indicates a separated group

Parentheses

indicates a separated group

Apostrophe

indicates contractions, plurals, and possessives

Slash

indicates a separation

Angle brackets

indicates a separated group

Braces

indicates a separated group

Sources and References

• https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/