Summary of Punctuation Marks
Punctuation Mark Name Example
full stop or period
I like English.
comma
I speak English, French and Thai.
semi-colon
I don't often go swimming; I prefer to play tennis. You have two choices: finish the work today or lose the contract.
colon
hyphen
This is a rather out-of-date book. In each townLondon, Paris and Romewe stayed in youth hostels.
dash
question mark Where is Shangri-La?
exclamation mark
"Help!" she cried. "I'm drowning!"
slash, forward slash or Please press your browser's oblique Refresh/Reload button.
backslash
C:\Users\Files\jse.doc
double quotation marks single quotation marks
"I love you," she said.
'I love you,' she said.
apostrophe
This is John's car.
underline
Have you read War and Peace?
underscore
bin_lad@cia.gov
I went to Bagkok (my favourite city) and stayed round brackets there for two weeks. The newspaper reported that the hostages [most of them French] had been released.
square brackets
curly brackets { b := a + 1 or braces RESULTIS b } One happy customer wrote: "This is the best program...that I have ever seen."
ellipsis