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The apostrophe ( ’, ' ), is used to mark to mark letters omitted in contractions.

'''Brackets'''

Question marks, exclamation points, semicolons, colons, periods and commas are placed inside the brackets when they apply only to the explanation or comment; if they syntactically apply to the sentence containing the material, they are placed outside the marks.

'''Colon'''

The colon ( : ) is used to start an enumeration, as in. It is used between two clauses when the second clause otherwise clarifies the first, as in.  

'''Comma'''

The comma is also used as the decimal separator.

'''Dash and hyphen'''

1. as a line continuation when a word is broken across two lines;

2. to apply a prefix to a word for which there is no canonical compound word;

'''Ellipsis'''

An ellipsis ( ..., …, . . .) is used to mark omitted text or when a sentence trails off.

'''Exclamation mark'''

The exclamation mark ( ! ) is used to mark an exclamation.

'''Period/full stop/full point'''

The character known as the period/full stop/full point ( . ) serves multiple purposes. It is used to mark the end of a sentence, to indicate abbreviation, including of names as initials, as well as a separation marker when listing things with number "1. 2. 3.".

'''Question marks'''

The question mark ( ? ) is used to mark the end of a sentence which is a question.

'''Quotation marks'''

Question marks, exclamation points, semicolons, colons, periods and commas are placed inside the quotation marks when they apply only to the quoted material; if they syntactically apply to the sentence containing or introducing the material, they are placed outside the marks.

'''Semicolon'''

The semicolon ( ; ) is used to separate two independent but related clauses. The semicolon is also used to separate list items when the list items contain commas.

'''Slash'''