12 Important Punctuation Marks with Rules & Examples • Full | Neetu Singh Vocab
12 Important Punctuation Marks with Rules & Examples
• Full Stop (.) – Usually used at the end of a sentence.
Eg- She was wearing a beautiful dress.
• Question Mark (?) – Usually used at the end of an interrogative sentence to form a question.
Eg- Who composed this song?
• Comma (,) – Usually used to denote a pause in a sentence.
Eg- I bought a beautiful dress, a purse and a pair of shoes.
• Exclamation Mark (!) – Used to denote shock, surprise, anger or a raised voice.
Eg- Hurray! We won.
• Colon (:) – Used to indicate what is to follow next.
•Eg- Verbs that do not take ing form: See, look, hear, exist, own etc.
• Semi Colon (;) – Used to link two independent clauses not joined by a conjunction or used to separate two independent clauses in place of comma.
Eg- My wife likes tea; I prefer coffee.
• Apostrophe (‘) – Used to show possession or for contraction of word.
Eg- This is a woman’s t shirt.
• Hyphen (-) – Used to glue words together.
Eg- He stayed in a five-star hotel.
• Slash (/) – Used to separate letters, numbers or words.
Eg-Sarah had a strange/weird habit.
• Ellipsis Mark (…) It is the omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader for the sentence to be understood.
Eg- "I am sorry, he is ....." Teena said.
She meant that he was no more.
• Round Brackets () – Used to add extra information in a sentence.
Eg- Mt. Everest (in the Himalayas) is the highest peak in the world.
• Quotation Mark (” “) – Used to show that someone else has said it.
Eg- I am fine,” he said.
