Use of punctuation in English

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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