punctuation marks
Sentence boundary indicators
Punctuation marks are the symbols used in writing to clarify meaning, indicate pauses, and separate structural units.
The term covers periods, commas, colons, semicolons, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, apostrophes, hyphens, dashes, parentheses, and brackets.
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- commasPunctuation for pauses
- Oxford commaFinal list separator
- serial commaList's penultimate separator
- colonLarge intestine section
- air quotesGestured skeptical punctuation
scare quotes · parentheses · curly braces · interrobang · dashes · brackets · ellipsis · apostrophe · pilcrow · asterisk · ampersand · virgule · dagger · em dash · square brackets · period · sentence · breath
- script elementsconsonants, vowels, numerals, diacritics, syllables
- punctuationperiod, comma, colon, apostrophe, semicolon
- symbolssymbols, runes, symbol, asterisks, national symbol
- ASCII characterscomma, period, space, question mark, exclamation mark
- letterpress printingletter blocks, ligatures, spacers, leading, slugs
- Latin alphabeta, d, e, h, q
punctuation marksletters
Alphabetic characters or mail
numerals · numbers · digits · letterforms · words
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