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Basic Punctuation Rules - Coggle Diagram
Basic Punctuation Rules
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quotation marks ¨¨
Quotation marks are primarily used to indicate material that is being reproduced word for word, as well as some other important uses.
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“The best investments today,” according to Smith, “are commodities and emerging-market stocks.”
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apostrophes '
The most common use of apostrophes in English is for contractions, where a noun or pronoun and a verb combine
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Proper nouns (names of people, cities, countries) that end in s
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colons:
The colon within a sentence makes a very pointed pause between two phrases. There are two main uses of the colon
The bookstore specializes in three subjects: art, architecture, and graphic design.
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semicolons ;
can be used to join phrases and sentences that are thematically linked without having to use a conjunction
can also be used instead of commas to separate the items in a list when the items themselves already contain commas
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