Punctuation

Use dialogue to enliven your writing. But unless you know the many rules of punctuating dialogue, you'll be creating a mess. This tutorial (part 1 of 2) will teach you all you need to know about the thrilling world of punctuating dialogue.

The colon also known as a dot-point, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line.

The comma is a punctuation mark, and it appears in several variants in various languages. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text.

A style of typeface in which letters are slanted to the right.

Period, a punctuation mark indicating the end of a sentence or phrase, specifically, a dot.

The hyphen (‐) is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation.

Ever mix up your "their"s, "your"s, "whose"s, and "lets"s? This tutorial explains the distinctions among four sets of troublesome words.

Apostrophe is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. In dramatic works and poetry written in or translated into English, such a figure of speech is often introduced by the exclamation "O".

In this video lesson, Ms. LaMagra will be demonstrating when to use colons after a word introducing a quotation. Effective sentence writing can be achieved when following proper punctuation.