Use of punctuation in English
Use of punctuation in English
Indentation or blank lines
Beginning of a new paragraph
Triple dot
Incomplete statement
Slash
Indicates a series of alternatives
Question mark
Indicates a question
Exclamation mark
Signalling positive or negative emotion
Exclamatives
The hyphen
Prefixes
Numerals and fractions
Coordination compounds
Noun modification
Compound adjectives
Compound nouns
Capital letters
At the beginning of sentences and quations
Apostrophe
Abbreviations
Contracted forms
Genetive forms
Quotation marks "" ''
Words in a foreign language
Names of books, magazines, newspapers, films, and paintings
Dashes and brackets/prentheses
Separate comment from the rest of the sentence
Full stop (AmE - period)
Decimals
Abbreviations
Initials
Semi-colon
Compound sentences
Colon
Details
Explanations
Comma
Intonation and emphasis
Question tags
Line breaks
Forms of address in letters/emails
Geographical locations
Linking adverbs
Non-restrictive relative clauses and appositions
Adverbial clauses
Adjectives
Lists
Or
And
Coordinate clauses
Nor
Yes
But
