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PUNCTUATION MARKS
PARENTHESIS AND BRACKETS
Brackets: are used in a similar way to commas when we want to add further explanation, an afterthought
Example
The terrestrial layer of the earth is 70% water [of which almost 97% is salt water].
Parenthesis: Is use for special purposes such as in technical manuals.
Example
I visited Kathmandu (which was full of tourists) on my way to the Himalayas for a trekking expedition.
THE HAYPHEN AND THE DASH
Is used for join words
Examples
up-to-date
son-in-law
one-third, In numbers
THE APOSTROPHE
The possessive apostrophe, in most cases you simply need to add 's to a noun to show possession
Example
a car's engine
The apostrophe in contractions, where a noun or pronoun and a verb combine.
Example
Who's at the door?
THE QUOTIATION MARK
its use to cite something someone said exactly.
Example
My boyfriend told me: "i want to marry you"
THE SEMICOLON
You can use it for join phrases
Example,
I like Veronica; She is beautiful
THE COLON
Its expand the sentence,or you can use this for do a list
Example, Marketplace listing:
Rice
Sugar
You can use it for indicate the our
Example, 10:08
THE QUESTION MARK
Is used in the final of the question
Examples
How old are you?
wich one?
THE EXCLAMATION MARK
Is used when you are sorprise, exasperation or for enphasity in a sentence
Examples
Get out!
What a beauty girl!
Is he married!
THE COMA
The coma, serves for Separate phrases, words, or clauses in lists
Examples
I met Harry, we went for a swim together, and afterwards Harry went home.
For dinner I had soup, fish, chicken, dessert, and coffee.
etc.
THE PERIOD
Periods in numbers, a number is also called a "decimal point" and it is read "point" unless it refers to money.
Example, 24.73
Period after a single word, This is often the case when the subject is understood as in a greeting or a command.
Example, "Goodbye."
Ellipsis, This indicates that only part of the sentence or text has been quoted
Example, He is always late, but you know how I feel about that...
The full stop, the simplest of the punctuation marks, You use it like a knife to cut the sentences
Indicate an abbreviation, Thats not obligary put a period for indicate an abbreviation, with period or without period is correct for writte
Example, I was
born in Australia and now live in Indonesia.
Example, I will arrive between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m.
