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punctuation

noun

A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences.

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The word 'punctuation' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the symbols used to structure written language and create meaning, such as commas, periods, and exclamation points. For example: "I need to review the rules of punctuation before I finish my essay."

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The singer, who is dyslexic, is not particularly worried about her often faulty spelling, grammar, or punctuation.

The punctuation served merely as a distancing mechanism.

Warren gets (slightly) more assertive – with punctuation, at least – telling the Boston Globe: I am not running for president.

Why do people feel so strongly about grammar and punctuation?

As well as covering the basics of grammar and punctuation, the course provides an easy-to-follow guide to some of the more advanced rules that can commonly cause confusion.

Take time to check spelling, grammar and punctuation.

As with Elvin Jones in the 1960s, Dave's angry-rattlesnake snare-drum patterns and arrhythmic punctuation constantly imply an elemental groove without fixing it in any steady pattern or location on the kit; but he adds clamour from hip-hop, neo-soul, DJ culture and the techniques of cutting-edge production.

He got the punctuation line: I am not running for president.

Americans in their young republic were also already going into decline, too: Adams Sherman Hill, a Harvard professor of rhetoric, found "the work of even good scholars disfigured by bad spelling, confusing punctuation, ungrammatical, obscure, ambiguous, or inelegant expressions" in 1879.

Rebekah Brooks, his former boss, was acquitted of all charges, as were four others.Yet the verdicts are a mere punctuation mark in a long saga.

Such spoken punctuation would probably find the same special niche function as "WTF" and "LOL" have today.

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