Punctuation Marks Challenge

Sentence Endings

100

This punctuation mark ends a complete declarative or imperative sentence.

Period/full stop?

200

This punctuation mark ends a sentence that expresses a direct question.

Question mark

300

This punctuation mark expresses strong emotion, emphasis, and goes at the end of a sentence.

Exclamation mark

Separators and Introducers

100

This punctuation mark separates words or word groups in a series, joins independent clauses with a conjunction, or sets off introductory elements.

Comma

200

This punctuation mark separates closely related independent clauses when they are not joined by a coordinating conjunction.

Semicolon

300

This punctuation mark is used to introduce a list of things or a sentence or phrase taken from somewhere else .

Colon

Connecting and Possession

100

This punctuation mark forms possessive nouns, shows omitted letters in contractions, or indicates some plurals.

Apostrophe

200

This punctuation mark joins words in compound modifiers or compound numbers and can connect a word broken at the end of a line.

Hyphen

300

Used to enclose technical editorial notes, clarifications, or missing words added to a text by someone other than the original author

Brackets

Enclosing and Omission

100

This punctuation mark encloses direct speech, dialogue, or a word-for-word from a source.

Quotation mark

200

This punctuation mark encloses extra, non-essential information, explanations, or asides within a sentence.

Parentheses

300

This punctuation mark shows that words, phrases, or sentences were intentionally omitted from a quoted text.

Ellipsis