Punctuations

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Punctuation

MeaningThe marks, such as full stop, comma, and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

The Power Of Punctuation

Let’s Take an example To Know

I Like Cooking my Family and my Pets.

I Like Cooking my Family and my pets.

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CommaBracketExclamation Mark

Semi Colon

Colon

Apostrophe

Full Stop

Question Mark

Hyphen

Types Of Punctuations

Comma

Used to

separate words and word groups in a simple series of three or more

items.Example: My estate goes to my wife, son, daughter-in-law and nephew.

Bracket

Used to

Enclose Words or figures that clarify or as an aside.Example: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was first Indian Nobel prize winner.

Exclamation Mark

Used To

Show emphasis and excitement.Example: Summer is in

3 months!

Semi Colon

Used toJoin two or more ideas (parts) in a sentence, those ideas are then

given equal position or rank.

Example: Dad is going bald; his hair is getting

thinner and thinner.

Colon

Used to

To introduce an item or a series of items.Example: You know what to do:

practice.

Apostrophe

Used toTo show possession.

Example: a woman’s hat the boss's wife

Full Stop

Used to

Used at end of a complete sentence that is a statement.

Example: I know him well.

Question Mark

Used to

Use a question mark only after a direct question.

Example: Will you go with me?

Hyphen

Used to

A hyphen joins two or more words together.

Example: great-grandmother

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