full stops
Final punctuation marks
Full stops are the punctuation marks that end declarative sentences—called periods in American English.
The term is standard in British usage.
Figuratively, a full stop emphasizes finality or refusal to discuss further: I'm not going, full stop.
Americans achieve the same effect with period.
- dotsSmall circular marks
- endsTermini or concludes
- colonLarge intestine section
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- periodPunctuation ending sentences
declarative · exclamation point · point · ellipsis · decimal point · Morse code · British English · abbreviation · finality · come to a halt · square brackets · typesetting · sentence · parentheses · bullet point · dot dot dot · clause · curly brackets
full stopscommas
Punctuation for pauses
ellipses · semicolons · dashes · run-on sentences · em dashes
full stopsellipses
Marks indicating omitted text
continuations · incomplete sentences · run-ons · to be continued · open endings
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