14 Punctuation Marks in English

There are fourteen punctuation marks in English—period being one of them—end of sentence, end of complete thought. That’s right, just fourteen punctuation marks in English! Including the exclamation point! And you better learn them!

Think about that… 14 punctuation marks… and… ellipsis… may be the most mysterious one. The little ol’ three dotted ellipsis allows you to leave out words. “Got it? Get it,” and remember to put quotation marks around spoken words.

Personality Types

The punctuation marks you make the most liberal use of reveal a great deal about you (brackets, braces, parenthesis). People [control freaks]  use brackets to make things exceedingly clear when writing history, etc.… while laid back types place parentheses (round shaped brackets) to add to unnecessary detail to their fuzzy logic. And, speaking of logic, computer programmers brought new fangled braces into heavy rotation. Those hyper-link thingies<< >>
  

Health Tips

People who like colons are more likely to go in for a colonoscopy: and that procedure is recommended every ten years after you pass the age of 55 years.

Writing Tips

The semicolon, highly recommended for aspiring novelists adds length and girth to you sentences; though bigger sentences offer no guarantee of better sentences. Commas, hardly avoidable in most situations, get soundly rejected by aspiring writers determined to add present tense energy as a way to engage readers in a pure tidal wave of dense roiling poetic expression a veritable hissing across the page before returning to sea. But the appearance of a simple question mark at the end of a sentence kills the novelistic flow and reveals a rank amateur. Why?

Details

The difference between a dash and a hyphen rankles some—especially English majors, the high-minded, and the ink-stained—but to others…not-so-much.

Conclusion

Always add an apostrophe to show possessive case ‘cause the King’s English is my English too.

14 punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.