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Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5433 USA
(269) 387-8400

Punctuation

There are 14 standard punctuation marks in American English.

  • Period ( . )
  • Exclamation point ( ! )
  • Question mark ( ? )
  • Comma ( , )
  • Colon ( : )
  • Semicolon ( ; )
  • Parentheses ( ( ) )
  • Brackets ( [ ] )
  • Apostrophe ( ' )
  • Quotation marks ( " " )
  • Hyphen ( - )
  • Dash ( -- )
  • Ellipsis ( ... )
  • Slash ( / )

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