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Glossary
Definition of word.
punctuation marks
punc-tu-a-tion marks
Punctuation marks are typographic characters added to words to clarify meaning. Punctuation marks are an important aspect of the syntactic cueing system. Punctuation marks include
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comma, e.g., ,,
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semicolon, e.g., ;,
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colon, e.g., :,
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slash, e.g., /,
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hyphen, e.g., -,
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en dash, e.g., –,
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em dash, e.g., —,
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swung dash, e.g., ~,
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parenthesis, e.g., ( ),
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square bracket, e.g., [ ],
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angle bracket, e.g., < >,
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ampersand, e.g., &,
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ellipsis, e.g., ...,
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apostrophe, e.g., ',
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quotation marks, e.g., " ",
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period, e.g., .,
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question mark, e.g., ?,
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exclamation mark, e.g., !,
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etc.
The rules of punctuation in the older Bible translations is different than modern translations.
Author: Allen B. Wolfe
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