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| | Examples of punctuation marks include: | | Examples of punctuation marks include: |
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| − | * [[Acute accent]] ('''é''') - The acute accent is a symbol placed over a vowel in some languages, especially [[French]] and [[Italian]].
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| | * [[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. |
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| | * [[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]], [[Italian]] and [[Vietnamese]].
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| | * [[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. |
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| | * [[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]] and Nordic languages like [[Swedish]] and [[Finnish]]. | + | |
| | + | ==See also== |
| | + | *[[Diacritical mark]] |
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| | [[category:Linguistics]] | | [[category:Linguistics]] |