What is the Punctuations?

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[ . ] Period — Indicates the end of a complete sentence.

[ () ] Parenthesis — Sets off additional informations.

[ ' ] Apostrophe — Shows possession, constructs contractions, and make some plurals.

[ "" ] Quotation marks — Set off speech or a quote.

[ ? ] Question mark — Indicates a query.

[ ! ] Exclamation mark — Indicates a strong feeling or interjections.

[ ; ] Semicolon — Links two independant clauses that are closely related.

[ & ] Ampersand — Bepresents the word 'and'.

[ ... ] Ellipses —Indicates a pause or a trailing off.

[ , ] Comma — Indicates a brief pause.

[ : ] Colon — Used after a statement to introduce a list of items.

[ - ] Dash — Sets off material for emphasis.

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