apostrophe

comma

Punctuation marking pauses

• periodPunctuation ending sentences
• semicolonPunctuation joining related clauses
• colonLarge intestine section

quotation mark · hyphen · dash · exclamation point · question mark · ellipsis · bracket · parenthesis · prime · typesetting

genitive

Case expressing ownership

• ownershipLegal right of possession
• belongingState of fitting in
• possessive caseForm showing ownership

possessive form · owner's · girl's · boy's · child's · teacher's · parent's · dog's · cat's · company's

elision

Dropped sounds in speech

• omissionFailure to include
• shorteningReducing length or duration
• don'tContraction forbidding action

can't · won't · isn't · aren't · couldn't · shouldn't · wouldn't · it's · they're · we're

address

Speak to formally

• invocationCalling upon higher authority
• exclamationForceful sudden utterance
• apostrophizeAddress someone absent

declamation · oration · personification · direct address · dramatic monologue · soliloquy · Hamlet · Brutus · oratory · figure of speech

ain't

Informal negative contraction

• gonnaCasual "will" contraction
• wannaDesire to, casually
• gottaColloquial for must

dunno · lemme · kinda · sorta · outta · finna · betcha · whatcha · y'all · 'cause

• punctuationperiod, comma, colon, semicolon, question mark
• grammar termsnoun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun
• ASCII characterscomma, period, space, question mark, exclamation mark
• Keyboard Charactersa, d, e, h, q
• Typographical Symbolscomma, period, colon, semicolon, hyphen
• code symbolsampersand, asterisk, at sign, backslash, backtick