14. Punctuation
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14.1 Period (Full stop) .
14.2 Comma ,
14.3 Colon :
14.4 Semi-colon ;
14.5 Question mark ?
14.6 Exclamation mark !
14.7 Dash —
14.8 Hyphen -
14.9 Brackets / Parentheses ( )
14.10 Square brackets [ ]
14.11 Braces { }
14.12 Apostrophe '
14.12.1 Possessives
14.12.1.1 In singular nouns
14.12.1.2 In plural nouns
14.12.1.3 In compound nouns
14.12.1.4 In geographic names
14.12.1.5 In names of organizations
14.12.1.6 In business names
14.12.2 Showing omission of one or more letters
14.12.2.1 Used in contractions
14.12.2.2 Used in abbreviations
14.12.3 In forming certain plural nouns
14.12.3.1 For abbreviations
14.12.3.2 For years
14.12.3.3 For letters
14.12.3.4 For symbols
14.13 Ellipsis …
14.14 Quotation marks “ ”
14.15 Slant /
14.16 Italics Italics
14.17 Underline _____
14.18 Capitalization C