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Punctuation

Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, consisting of points between the words and horizontal strokes between sections.

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Punctuation

Nodes142
Edges141
Triples193
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014085
Components1

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related to Further reading · 46
Punctuation → Allen, Amis, Ampersands, An Introduction, California Press, Effect, English, Ernest, Exploring, Fowler, Francis George Fowler, Gowers, Guide, Guide Functions, HarperCollins, Henry Watson, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, History, Houston, Interrobangs
related to External links · 23
Punctuation → Automatic Speech TranscriptsEnglish Punctuation, Capitalization, CJK Compatibility Forms UFE30, CJK Symbols, Clarity, English, Ethiopic, ExpressionUnicode, French, Fullwidth Forms UFF00, General, Guide, Halfwidth, Jennifer Frost, Larry Trask, Marks, PDF, Punctuation U3000, Recovery, RulesPunctuation
related to Medieval · 17
Punctuation → AD, Anglo-Saxon, Bible, Cicero, Demosthenes, In, Irish, Jerome, Latin, Likewise, Most, The, These, This, Tironian, Under, Vulgate
related to Other languages · 15
Punctuation → Belgium, English, Europe, European, For, France, French, In, In Canadian French, In French, Je, Other, Quotation, Russian, The
related to Typewriters and electronic communication · 14
Punctuation → ASCII, Despite, English, For, HTML, In, Informal, Morse, Most, The, These, Treatment, Unicode, Wikipedia's
related to In English · 13
Punctuation → American, American English, British, British English, English, In American English, In British English, The, There, These, This, UK, United States
related to Printing-press era · 13
Punctuation → Aldus Manutius, As, By, Europe, Lynne Truss, Martin Luther's German Bible, Printed, Rapid, The, They, This, Venetian, Younger
related to "Question comma", "exclamation comma" · 11
Punctuation → An, Australia, Canada, It, January, November, The, These, WIPO, WO9219458, World Intellectual Property Organization
related to Interrobang · 9
Punctuation → Although, American, In, INTERROBANG, INVERTED INTERROBANG, Martin, Nevertheless, Speckter, Unicode
related to Western antiquity · 9
Punctuation → After, Aristophanes, Around, BC, Byzantium, During, Greek, Greeks, West

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marks used english mark use century comma question sentence text point full writing exclamation colon french languages written two pause

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
suprasegmentalsinstance ofSimilar changes in meaning can be achieved in spoken forms of most languages by using elements of speech0.80text
full stopsinstance ofpunctuation marks0.80text
commas are placed inside the quotation mark only if they are part of what is being quotedinstance ofpunctuation marks0.80text
and placed outside the closing quotation mark if part of the containing sentenceinstance ofpunctuation marks0.80text
Punctuationrelated to "Question comma", "exclamation comma"An0.60section
Punctuationrelated to "Question comma", "exclamation comma"World Intellectual Property Organization0.60section
Punctuationrelated to "Question comma", "exclamation comma"WIPO0.60section
Punctuationrelated to "Question comma", "exclamation comma"WO92194580.60section
Punctuationrelated to "Question comma", "exclamation comma"The0.60section
Punctuationrelated to "Question comma", "exclamation comma"These0.60section
Punctuationrelated to "Question comma", "exclamation comma"Canada0.60section
Punctuationrelated to "Question comma", "exclamation comma"It0.60section

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