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No shame! here’s proper punctuation with a simple format and the dictionary definitions because i used to be that writer who was where some of you are now. 💖
1. Full stop
A full stop is the punctuation name for a mark that is used to show the end of a sentence, as shown in this punctuation example:
'Lucy went clothes shopping. She bought a lovely new skirt.'
Full stops are used to indicate that it is the end of a sentence, usually communicating a complete point or thought. It highlights a new sentence is about to begin.
2. Commas
Commas is the punctuation name for a mark that aregreat for breaking down sentences, combining two clauses or showing us when to pause.
'Despite the fact I hate maths, I quite like learning about fractions.'
This shows how commas can add emphasis and tell the reader when to pause. Sometimes, commas can be misplaced. This is called a comma splice, where two independent clauses are connected by a comma, when they should really be separated with a full stop or semi colon or connected with a connective.
3. Question marks
Question marks simply indicate that the speaker is asking a question. They're used at the end of question (or interrogative) sentences.
'Do you still want to keep your teddy bear?'
4. Exclamation marks
Exclamation marks is the punctuation name for a mark that can change the meaning and tone of a sentence. They still end a sentence, but they can add emotion - whether that's excitement, anger or nervousness!
'Look, it's a cat!'
'I'm so nervous about my SATs exams!'
'I can't believe you just said that!'
All three of these sentences convey very different emotions using an exclamation mark, so it can be confusing. Yet imagine if they used a full stop instead - these emotions would be much harder to read and understand.
A sentence which needs an exclamation mark is called an exclamatory sentence.
5. Colons
A colon is the punctuation name for a mark that is used to connect two clauses.
'Never go out in the sun without sunscreen: you#ll damage your skin.'
They're also great for introducing a list of three or more things.
'I'm visiting four cities this summer: Rome, Florence, Paris, and Seville.'
6. Semicolons
Semicolons get a bad reputation for being difficult, but in truth, they're super handy!
You can use a semicolon to join 2 main (or independent clauses) which have equal importance. For example,
'Katie was hungry; she hadn't eaten all day.'
Semicolons show a closer relationship between the clauses than a full stop would show.
7. Apostrophes
Apostrophe is a punctuation mark that can be quite confusing for many children, but it's really important that children learn how to use it properly.
Apostrophes are used to identify something that belongs to someone or to show a letter or multiple letters are missing from a word. Yet as simple as this sounds, many children and adults often misplace or forget apostrophes, even putting them somewhere they shouldn't be altogether. The following sentence shows how to use an apostrophe for contractions, where letters are missing from "were not", "of the clock" and "cannot".
"We weren't meant to leave before 4 O'clock, so we can't go yet."
Apostrophes can also be used to show the possessive form of a singular noun.
"The student's job was to make sure no one touched the pet rabbit's breakfast."
With plural nouns where the word already has an 's' at the end, an apostrophe just gets added at the end.
"The girls' toy truck had broken."
If the word is plural and doesn't have an 's' at the end, again one can be added.
"The women's business meeting had been delayed."
One of the most common misuses of apostrophes is putting them in words which are just plural and don't show possession or contraction. For example, words such as pencils, ghosts, houses, or guests never need an apostrophe.
8. Dash
A dash is the punctuation name for a mark that used to separate words into statements. There are two common types of dashes: en dash and em dash which vary in length. The en dash is twice as long as a hyphen and is most commonly used to signify a range between two words or numbers, for example the date range:
1990-2014.
Meanwhile,the em dash can be used in place of a comma, parenthesis, or colon to enhance readability or emphasize the conclusion of a sentence. For example:
She gave him her answer—No!
8. Hyphen
This list of punctuation marks isn't exhaustive, but it does contain the most commonly used punctuation marks with names. For example:
Sarah had a part-time job that she worked on a Saturday
9. Parentheses
A parenthesis is a word, phrase, or sentence that is inserted into writing as extra information using brackets, commas or dashes. For example:
'James (who was terrified of heights) was going to ride the biggest rollercoaster in the theme park
When a whole sentence is written inside a parenthesis then the full stop will be included inside the parenthesis, for example - Please read this story. (You'll be amazed.). However, if the majority of a sentence is written outside the parentheses, then the full stop should also be used on the outside, for example, You are late (aren't you?).
10. Brackets
Brackets is the punctuation name for a mark that is a curved symbol that looks like () and they are used to separate non-essential or additional information from a sentence. For example:
She finally answered (after taking five minutes to think) that she didn’t understand the question.
11. Quotation marks
Quotation marks is the punctuation name for a mark that is the primary type of punctuation used in quotes. These are inverted commas that are used as either single (‘ ’) or double (“ ”) sets. They are used either to mark the beginning and end of a title or quoted passage. For example:
Walking across the beach Mary said, "the weather is very sunny today".
12. Ellipsis
An ellipsis(plural ellipses) is a punctuation mark made up of 3 dots. Ellipses are commonly used to indicate the omission of words, lines or paragraphs from a quoted passage. For example:
'Today...we are proud to announce our new product.'
Dictionary version [better version In my opinion]
What is a typographical symbol?
The term typographical symbol, or any other number of phrases, refers to a character or symbol that isn’t considered to be a punctuation mark but may still be used in writing for various purposes. Typographical symbols are generally avoided in formal writing under most circumstances. However, you may see typographic symbols used quite a bit in informal writing.
Typographical symbol examples
The following examples show some ways that a writer might use typographical symbols. Keep in mind that some of these sentences may not be considered appropriate in formal writing.
The frustrated actor said she was tired of her co-star’s “annoying bull****.”
For questions, email us at [email protected]!
The band had five #1 singles on the American music charts during the 1990s.
My internet provider is AT&T.
Period (.)
A period is used to end a declarative sentence. A period indicates that a sentence is finished.
Today is Friday.
Unique to them, periods are also often used in abbreviations.
Prof. Dumbledore once again awarded a ludicrous amount of points to Gryffindor.
Question mark (?)
The question mark is used to end a question, also known as an interrogative sentence.
Do you feel lucky?
Exclamation point (!)
The exclamation point is used at the end of exclamations and interjections.
Our house is haunted!
Wow!
Comma, colon, and semicolon
Commas, colons, and semicolons can all be used to connect sentences together.
Comma (,)
The comma is often the punctuation mark that gives writers the most problems. It has many different uses and often requires good knowledge of grammar to avoid making mistakes when using it. Some common uses of the comma include:
Joining clauses: Mario loves Peach, and she loves him.
Nonrestrictive elements: My favorite team, the Fighting Mongooses, won the championship this year.
Lists: The flag was red, white, and blue.
Coordinate adjectives: The cute, happy puppy licked my hand.
Try out this quiz on the Oxford comma!
Colon (:)
The colon is typically used to introduce additional information.
The detective had three suspects: the salesman, the gardener, and the lawyer.
Like commas, colons can also connect clauses together.
We forgot to ask the most important question: who was buying lunch?
Colons have a few other uses, too.
The meeting starts at 8:15 p.m.
The priest started reading from Mark 3:6.
Semicolon (;)
Like the comma and the colon, the semicolon is used to connect sentences together. The semicolon typically indicates that the second sentence is closely related to the one before it.
I can’t eat peanuts; I am highly allergic to them.
Lucy loves to eat all kinds of sweets;lollipops are her favorite.
Hyphen and dashes (en dash and em dash)
All three of these punctuation marks are often referred to as “dashes.” However, they are all used for entirely different reasons.
Hyphen (-)
The hyphen is used to form compound words.
I went to lunch with my father-in-law.
She was playing with a jack-in-the-box.
He was accused of having pro-Britishsympathies.
En dash (–)
The en dash is used to express ranges or is sometimes used in more complex compound words.
The homework exercises are on pages 20–27.
The songwriter had worked on many Tony Award–winning productions.
Em dash (—)
The em dash is used to indicate a pause or interrupted speech.
The thief was someone nobody expected—me!
“Those kids will—” was all he managed to say before he was hit by a water balloon.
Test your knowledge on the different dashes here.
Parentheses, brackets, and braces
These pairs of punctuation marks look similar, but they all have different uses. In general, the parentheses are much more commonly used than the others.
Parentheses ()
Typically, parentheses are used to add additional information.
I thought (for a very long time) if I should actually give an honest answer.
Tomorrow is Christmas (my favorite holiday)!
Parentheses have a variety of other uses, too.
Pollution increased significantly. (See Chart 14B)
He was at an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting.
Richard I of England (1157–1199) had the heart of a lion.
Square brackets []
Typically, square brackets are used to clarify or add information to quotations.
According to an eyewitness, the chimpanzees “climbed on the roof and juggled [bananas].”
The judge said that “the defense attorney [Mr. Wright] had made it clear that the case was far from closed.”
Curly brackets {}
Curly brackets, also known as braces, are rarely used punctuation marks that are used to group a set.
I was impressed by the many different colors {red, green, yellow, blue, purple, black, white} they selected for the flag’s design.
Angle brackets <>
Angle brackets have no usage in formal writing and are rarely ever used even in informal writing. These characters have more uses in other fields, such as math or computing.
Quotation marks and apostrophe
You’ll find these punctuation marks hanging out at the top of a line of text.
Quotation marks (“”)
The most common use of quotation marks is to contain quotations.
She said, “Don’t let the dog out of the house.”
Bob Ross liked to put “happy little trees” in many of his paintings.
Apostrophe (‘)
The apostrophe is most often used to form possessives and contractions.
The house’s back door is open.
My cousin’s birthday is next week.
It isn’t ready yet.
We should’ve stayed outside.
Slash and ellipses
These are two punctuation marks you may not see too often, but they are still useful.
Slash (/)
The slash has several different uses. Here are some examples:
Relationships: The existence of boxer briefs somehow hasn’t ended the boxers/briefs debate.
Alternatives: They accept cash and/or credit.
Fractions: After an hour, 2/3 of the audience had already left.
Ellipses (…)
In formal writing, ellipses are used to indicate that words were removed from a quote.
The mayor said, “The damages will be …paid for by the city … as soon as possible.”
In informal writing, ellipses are often used to indicate pauses or speech that trails off.
He nervously stammered and said, “Look, I … You see … I wasn’t … Forget it, okay.”
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okay so i was telling @literatureisdying about my slightly boygenius-ish dream and they were like 🤯 MAKE A POST and so i will :> super cool dream under the cut (keep in mind attie im copy-pasting cuz i dont wanna re-write all that it took me 10 mins)
idk but there was a lot of christian symbolism and there was a man with wings but like some on his waist and some coming from his shoulder blades and he was curled in on himself covering himself from view and had eyes that if you looked at them too long sparked red all over his body and he was half-nude but he was also chained up in the same position jesus was crucified but this man was on his knees and he had long fingers that at some point bled from finger to talon and the always an angel never a god was playing on repeat from a broken radio until the man screamed at it to shut up and it crackled and went dead and then there was a flashback to the wings tearing itself from the man’s body which was weirdly like contrast-y bc the man himself had dark skin and locs bulled back into a bun with like some curls around his face but the wings were bright white and the feathers were pin-straight then the dream flashed back to the “present” and his wings were bloody and so was his face but not too bad and it kinda felt like it wasn’t his blood? and maybe that’s why he was chained up but then there was another man in front of him and he was also contrast-y cuz he was pale but not white as in the race more like someone with albinism and was completely human or looked to be and he freed the angel from his chains and held him in his arms as the radio began playing always an angel never a god on crackly repeat again but there was also other songs with religious words imagery like take me to church and also romantic songs like melting by kali uchis? but it only played a line or two and circled through about 50 songs and i didnt recognize some which was weird cuz it was my sub-conscious n stuff but it ended with silence and the man kissed the angels bloody talons and then i woke up
tagging: @ready--freddie @serendipminiewrites @holdmyteaplease @bassguitarinablackt-shirt @luvrli @talesfromtheunknowable @annotated-catastrophe @shadow-of-tea-and-tea
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Why does every thing have to be criticaly aclaimed to be good now
I don’t get why people stopped liking fun movies, like it’s not enough for a movie to be entertaining enjoyable and funny anymore everything needs to be „a good movie „ which is super deep and intellectual.I feel like this is honestly why the movie and cinema landscape is so bad right now because if a movie is not „good „ it is immediately torn to shreds by all the super smart critics on social media because they can’t just let themselves enjoy things if it doesn’t make them seem smarter. If any of the now iconic movies from the 2000 and 2010s like pitch perfect came out today they would probably be torn down and be considered a so called bad movies . I feel like this is A big reasons for why stuff like romcoms teen comedy’s and family movies have basically died out . Just because a story isn’t deep or intellectual doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling especially ,Stories that make people happy that make them laugh. we live in a world that isn’t always great so people should at least be allowed to enjoy things just because they make them happy.
Sorry for the rant this was all prompted by me coming out of the theater for argyle and searching it for mabey some fun edits of the characters or people talking about the movie only to find people just talking about how bad it was and what a flop it was. Where it was honestly a really funny and entertaining movie like literally the entire theater was laughing when I was watching it and it made me really sad and i felt almost insulted like am I stupid for enjoying this movie.
#movies#teen movies#romcom#movie critic#cinema#rambles#rant post#rant#argylle#no punctuation#let people enjoy things
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I think there's something about the way that c!dream and c!wilbur have a fundamental misunderstanding of the other, and yet, at the same time, in some ways, they know each other better than anyone else (maybe they know each other better than they know themselves) and it's just hrfshfjkahdskjdhsjds
you went to war against him he tore apart your home you conceded to his silver tongue you handed him tnt and your hands brushed together when you smell the gunpowder in the wake of a destroyed country all you could think of is hands lighting cigars and cheshire grins after blowing smoke into your masked face and you don't fit the mold he left behind but you cut yourself into pieces to fit into it anyway you followed the path stained in blood and you pretended that his will was always your own and you take a shaky and crying ghost into your bloodied and bruised hands without remorse to get him back and you do you do you waltz into that train station and draw him back and the familiar touch of his hands is overwhelming and his whispered feverish words calling you his hero and his savior taste like the nectar of the gods in the wake of all that has happened in pandora and he holds you gently possessively like he intends to mold you once more and you let him and focus on how nice the touch is after shears and blades and fists and you wait for him to come and fool yourself into thinking your goals have ever aligned as though he's not the reason your home splintered in the first place but you can't find it in yourself to feel angry at him and when he marches into your prison torture chamber the place you could never escape your home you concede to him once again because a part of you will always be his and he knows it because he built you in that way and he's your greatest enemy he's one of your few allies and people tell you you're a snake but snakes don't just bite but he came into your home and you welcomed him with open arms but he leaked venom and whispered temptations into people's ears turning your home into the garden of eden and you think that maybe some snakes do just bite but as much as you are his a part of him is yours he is your vassal he wanted it to be that way and no matter how often the emphasis will be on you belonging to him you know that to own something is to be owned in return attachments go both ways afterall but then he's leaving and he's gone and the narrative unravels and you find that you don't really remember who you were before he came
#dreblr#c!dreambur#madduo#I'm having thoughts about them 24/7 as you can tell#writing from the void#no punctuation#sorry it was a stylistic choice
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Hitting refresh on my email for the 400th time to see if the guy in Denver changed my display name on the government computer yet.
Hitting refresh on my email for the 401st time...
#yes i can do that#he sent me an email yesterday that said in all lowercase#no punctuation#and now i hit refresh eternal
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There's this really weird thing where a person that used to treat you very bad suddenly does a 180 and completly changes to be a better person the moment you actually gain the awareness to realise what they did to you was wrong but now you can't even hold a grudge against them cause they've already bettered themselves but you're still kinda mad at them and don't know where to put that rage now.
#no punctuation#relatable#inner child#grudge#idk what to tag this as#mental health#recovery#rage#female rage#punctuation is overrated
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some people write fanfiction with such bad grammar it’s impossible to tell if they’re a little kid or if they barely know english. if it’s the first why are you writing this? If it’s the second why not. translate at this point 😭
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Wanted to have a nice little weekend with my cousin but here I am absolutely fucked I feel like death my body hates me and I've tried loving it but that doesnt work so I'll hate it back
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byler is canon im at my peak nothing is stopping us s5 i know what you are and it sure isnt straight
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I have spent from the second I reblogged that Gatorade painting giggling about it and telling my husband that we need one I need a Gatorade painting between our work desks
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Poor Danny and Sam can’t even have a date without people spying.
4 days late buttt i am catching up lol (if i don’t get distracted now lol)
Promt was video tape and i decided a drone with a camera was the way to go. ik its not amity but i am lazy so i just took a photo from outside..... lol.
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Some of you have never interacted with me and you’re already on thin ice 🧊💁🏽♀️
#bio all crazy#just the run on sentences#of a basement troll#drinking Mountain Dew for 6 months#no punctuation#stay over thereeeee#DNI#me#mine#txt
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oh my god he ^_^
#throwing up#hes so adorable#im going to explode#kim yuwon#hes my babygirl#the background too !!#imagining him using kaomojis in regular conversation#ohgod#headcannoning him sending messages like a teenage girl#excessive emojis#no punctuation#weird shortened words#he definitely was laying on his stomach kicking his feet in the air while sending that#giggling too#i love him#im going to babygirl-ify this man no matter who stands in my way
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You know what's really making me mad about the whole ticket master jacking up ticket prices is the fact that I just added up all six of the ticket prices for the shows I'm seeing this year including one I bought through ticketmaster and it's still less then what I saw some people say they spent on 1 ticket today to see Fall Out Boy like seriously the government needs to either shut down ticketmaster where you have to go back to buying through the venue itself or make standard non ridiculous prices for each section say like every pit ticket to every show ever in arenas is 100 bucks and thats it you know ughhhhh!
#axl rants instead of sleeping#ticketmaster#ticketmaster could suck my cock except i dont want it anywhere near my cock and it doesnt wven exist#concert tickets#ticket prices#wall of text#no punctuation#ugh time to sleep#wtf are these tags anyway
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I find it so funny that people who go out of their way to hate Micah Bell's fans by commenting and/or reblogging posts just to make fun of them with their friends don't realize they're behaving exactly like Micah when he goes around camp antagonizing people for no reason
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Everyone go read Villains and Virtues run dont walk I dont care if I sound crazy I was up all night reading and I have no regrets I am so satisfied and 13/10 would reread again there will be art of this after commissions I so swear just the characters the dynamics the slow burn character growth the cheeky hints of smut and flirting throughout with the last book full of twists... it's just been a minute since I was just along for the ride in a book and I loved it so very very much
Thank you @thefoxthefox for the rec!!! 10000000% new comfort read
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