415
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
mLine 3:
Line 3: − + Line 11:
Line 11: − + Line 19:
Line 19: − +
no edit summary
Examples of punctuation marks include:
Examples of punctuation marks include:
* [[Acute accent]] ('''é''') - The acute accent is a symbol placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]].
* [[Acute accent]] ('''é''') - The acute accent is a symbol placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]] and [[Italian]].
* [[Ampersand]] ('''&''') - Is used to represent conjunction (the use of the word "and").
* [[Ampersand]] ('''&''') - Is used to represent conjunction (the use of the word "and").
* [[Apostrophe]] ('''<nowiki>'</nowiki>''') - Indicates possession, or the omission of one or more letters from a word.
* [[Apostrophe]] ('''<nowiki>'</nowiki>''') - Indicates possession, or the omission of one or more letters from a word.
* [[Ellipsis]] ('''...''') - Used to indicate that part of a sentence or sequence has been omitted.
* [[Ellipsis]] ('''...''') - Used to indicate that part of a sentence or sequence has been omitted.
* [[Exclamation point]] ('''!''') - Used to stress the preceding point, or to show feeling.
* [[Exclamation point]] ('''!''') - Used to stress the preceding point, or to show feeling.
* [[Grave accent]] ('''è''') - An accent placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]] and [[Vietnamese]].
* [[Grave accent]] ('''è''') - An accent placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]], [[Italian]] and [[Vietnamese]].
* [[Hyphen]] (or dash) ('''-''') - Used to separate the parts of a compound word or noun, or between the syllables of a word when the word has to be divided at the end of a line of text.
* [[Hyphen]] (or dash) ('''-''') - Used to separate the parts of a compound word or noun, or between the syllables of a word when the word has to be divided at the end of a line of text.
* [[Period]] (or full stop) ('''.''') - Used to indicate the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop, or after abbreviations of words.
* [[Period]] (or full stop) ('''.''') - Used to indicate the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop, or after abbreviations of words.
* [[Separatrix]] ('''/''') - Used to separate related items of information.
* [[Separatrix]] ('''/''') - Used to separate related items of information.
* [[Tilde]] (or swung dash) ('''~''') - Used in text to indicate the omission of a word.
* [[Tilde]] (or swung dash) ('''~''') - Used in text to indicate the omission of a word.
* [[Umlaut]] (or [[trema]]) ('''ü''') - An accent, represented by two dots above the vowel, used in some languages, especially [[German]] and [[Afrikaans]].
* [[Umlaut]] (or [[trema]]) ('''ü''') - An accent, represented by two dots above the vowel, used in some languages, especially [[German]] and [[Afrikaans]] and Nordic languages like [[Swedish]] and [[Finnish]].
[[category:Linguistics]]
[[category:Linguistics]]