The English language has many punctuation marks, and you will usually learn to use many of them as you master the language. Still, there are some punctuation mark uses you might still not know about despite using and seeing them on a regular basis.
Here are 14 common punctuation marks in English.
- The Full Stop (.)
- The Question Mark (?)
- Quotation Marks/Speech Marks (” “)
- The Apostrophe (‘)
- The Comma (,)
- The Hyphen (-)
- The dash (en dash (–) em dash (—))
- The Exclamation Mark (!)
- The Colon (:)
- The Semicolon (;)
- Parentheses ()
- Brackets []
- Ellipsis (…)
- The Slash (/)
The following image looks at the 14 common punctuation marks used in the English language.
