PUNCTUATION MARKS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CONTENTS The Introduction (1) The A Group Punctuation Marks (i) Colons (:) (ii) Commas (,) (iii) Dashes ( _ ) (iv) Exclamation Mark (!) (v) Full Stop (.) (vi) Question Marks (?) (vii) Semi-Colon (2) The B Group Punctuation Marks: (i) Apostrophe (’) (ii) Hyphen (-) (iii)Brackets or Parenthesis ( ) * Double/Multiple Parenthesis : (iv) Quotation Marks/Inverted Commas (‘…’ or “…”) (v)Capital Letters (3) The “C” Group Punctuation Marks (i) Asterisks (*) (ii) Ellipses (iii) Caret ( ∧) The Introduction The more commonly used punctuations in English are: capital letters and full stops, question marks, commas, quotation marks, semi-colons, colons, exclamation marks, dash, hyphen and others. They may be grouped in two ways: the terminal markers which are applied at the end of sentences, and the interior markers used within the structures. The reason for punctuations is for the clarity of information design. It gives concis