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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]].

* 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]] (') - 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.

* Circumflex (^) - An accent placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]] and [[Afrikaans]].

* [[Circumflex]] ('''^''') - An accent placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]] and [[Afrikaans]].

* Colon (:) - Used after a word that introduces a series, or an example, or an explanation.

* [[Colon]] (''':''') - Used after a word that introduces a series, or an example, or an explanation.

* Comma (,) - Used to separate words or phrases in a sentence.

* [[Comma]] (''',''') - Used to separate words or phrases in a sentence.

* 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.

* Full stop (.) - Used to indicate the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop, or after abbreviations of words.

* [[Grave accent]] ('''&egrave;''') - An accent placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]] 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.

* Question mark (?) - Used at the end of a sentence to indicate that a question has been asked.

* [[Period]] (or full stop) ('''.''') - Used to indicate the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop, or after abbreviations of words.

* [[Quotation mark]] (or Inverted commas) (") -  Used to attribute the text enclosed within the commas to someone else.

* [[Question mark]] ('''?''') - Used at the end of a sentence to indicate that a question has been asked.

* Semicolon (;) - Used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period.

* [[Quotation mark]] (or inverted commas) (") -  Used to attribute the text enclosed within the commas to someone else.

* Separatrix (/) - Used to separate related items of information.

* [[Semicolon]] (''';''') - Used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period.

* Tilde (or swung dash) (~) - Used in text to indicate the omission of a word.

* [[Separatrix]] ('''/''') - Used to separate related items of information.

* Umlaut (ü) - An accent, represented by two dots above the vowel, used in some languages, especially [[German]] and [[Afrikaans]].

* [[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]].

[[category:Linguistics]]

[[category:Linguistics]]