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ampersand
a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and)
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apostrophe
the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
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brace
either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material
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bracket, square bracket
either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material
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angle bracket, bracket
either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material
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colon
a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
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comma
a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
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exclamation mark, exclamation point
a punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation
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dash, hyphen
a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
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parenthesis
either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
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full point, full stop, period, point, stop
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
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interrogation point, question mark
a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question
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inverted comma, quotation mark, quote
a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
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semicolon
a punctuation mark (`;') used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period
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diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule
a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
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swung dash
a punctuation mark used in text to indicate the omission of a word
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suspension point
(usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete
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single quote
a single quotation mark
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double quotes
a pair of quotation marks
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scare quote
the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
