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nounthe marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
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nounsomething that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisionstype of:
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nounthe use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrasestype of:
Definition that contains punctuation
- stop a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- point a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- mark insert punctuation marks into
- mark a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- style editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
- period a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- stroke a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
- quote a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
- dash 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
- slash a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information