This punctuation is used to end a sentence that states a fact or gives a command.
What is a period?
These express shouting and loudness!
What is an exclamation mark?
If someone is speaking in a text, these are found around their words.
What are quotation marks?
This piece of punctuation appears as a curve, or single quote, towards the end of a word.
What is an apostrophe?
Use this to separate a series of things in a sentence, Tom, Tim and Terry.
What is a comma?
There is no space between this round punctuation mark and the last word of a sentence.
What is a period?
This also expresses emotions.
What is an exclamation mark?
Quotation marks are also used when citing this type of information from a text or reading.
What is textual evidence?
This piece of punctuation is a solitary creature as it CANNOT make anything plural. That's a fact.
What is an apostrophe?
Commas require the reader to do this for a moment before finishing the sentence.
What is a pause?
If something abbreviated is at the end of a statement, there's no need to add this piece of punctuation --- you already have one at the end.
What is a period?
Exclamation marks are not used in this type of writing.
Quotation marks aren't needed when some one does this, or explains what a person said using new words.
What is paraphrase?
An apostrophe can make two words into one, forming this. Isn't that cool? Is not that cool?
What is a contraction?
These can be used to join two sentences, but they need to have a conjoining word, too. There's an example in the last sentence.
What are commas?
This piece of punctuation hooks the reader into wondering about something.
What is a question mark?
If you're quoting one of these, like "Jeopardy!," and it has an exclamation mark, then include it!
What is a title?
Paraphrases that don't require quotation marks are called this.
What are indirect quotations?
If this book belongs to Tim, it's Tim's book. And I can write about the book that belongs to Tim using this piece of punctuation that shows possession.
What is an apostrophe?
"Commas are used to set off these," Sue said.
Tom said, "You're right."
What are quotations?
If a statement ends with an inquiry, this piece of punctuation goes at the end.
You knew it was a question mark, didn't you?
The only times when multiple of these are ok is in informal writing, such as text messages.
What is an exclamation mark?
In or out? If a period, question mark or exclamation point end the quoted sentence, put it inside these.
What are the quotation marks?
This piece of punctuation does not apply for its, when an object owns something on its own. It does step in when "it is" wants to get together.
What is an apostrophe?
Additionally, these punctuation marks are used to set off transition words. The sentence above is an example.
What are commas?