10 Common Punctuation Marks with Examples

American vs British English

Though British and American English have lots of similarities, when it comes to punctuation styles, there are some differences.

Punctuation symbols	British English	American English
.	a full stop	a period
!	an exclamation mark	an exclamation point
( )	brackets	parentheses
[ ]	square brackets	brackets
Time	11.30	11:30
Titles	Mr, Ms, or Mrs	Mr., Ms., Mrs.
Quotations	‘I can’t go out tomorrow’, John sighed, ‘because, as my dad said, “you’ll go out when hell freezes over”‘.	I can’t go out tomorrow,” John sighed, “because, as my dad said, ‘you’ll go out when hell freezes over.’”

Differences Between Punctuation in British and American English