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In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
For example, the 1998 edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage used full point for the mark used after an abbreviation, but full stop or full point when it was employed at the end of a sentence; [9] the 2015 edition, however, treats them as synonymous (and prefers full stop), [10] and New Hart's Rules does likewise (but prefers full point). [11]
Full-stop, Period, Decimal separator, Dot operator ‽ Interrobang (combined 'Question mark' and 'Exclamation mark') Inverted question and exclamation marks ¡ Inverted exclamation mark: Exclamation mark, Interrobang ¿ Inverted question mark: Question mark, Interrobang < Less-than sign: Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet Lozenge: Square lozenge ...
Arthur said the situation was "deplorable". (The full stop (period) is not part of the quotation.) Arthur said, "The situation is deplorable." (The full sentence is quoted; the period is part of the quotation.) Arthur said that the situation "was the most deplorable he had seen in years."
The full stop is represented by a colon, and vice versa; the exclamation mark is represented by a diagonal similar to a tilde ~ , while the question mark ՞ resembles an unclosed circle placed after the last vowel of the word.
Quotation marks [A] are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. [3] Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.
Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. [1] English punctuation has two complementary aspects: phonological punctuation, linked to how the sentence can be read aloud, particularly to pausing; [2] and grammatical punctuation, linked to the structure of the sentence. [3]
BAMUM FULL STOP U+A6F3: Po, other Bamum ꛴ BAMUM COLON U+A6F4: Po, other Bamum ꛵ BAMUM COMMA U+A6F5: Po, other Bamum ꛶ BAMUM SEMICOLON U+A6F6: Po, other Bamum ꛷ BAMUM QUESTION MARK U+A6F7: Po, other Bamum 櫵 BASSA VAH FULL STOP U+16AF5: Po, other Bassa Vah ᯼ BATAK SYMBOL BINDU NA METEK U+1BFC: Po, other Batak ᯽ BATAK SYMBOL BINDU ...