Punctuation Marks

(source : https://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation-marks.htm )

Summary of common punctuation marks
The following table of commonly used English punctuation marks shows:

• a graphical representation of each punctation mark (black) with text block (grey)
• name of punctuation mark with link to more information
• very simple example sentence (more examples on individual pages)

punctuation mark	name	example
	full stop or period	I like English.
	comma	I speak English, French and Thai.
	semi-colon	I don't often go swimming; I prefer to play tennis.
	colon	You have two choices: finish the work today or lose the contract.
	hyphen	This is a rather out-of-date book.
	dash	In each town—London, Paris and   Rome—we stayed in youth hostels.
	question mark	Where is Shangri-La?
	exclamation mark exclamation point (AmE)	"Help!" she cried. "I can't swim!"
	slash, forward slash or oblique	Please press your browser's            Refresh/Reload button.
	backslash	C:\Files\jo.doc
	double quotation marks	"I love you," she said.
	single quotation marks	'I love you,' she said.
	apostrophe	This is John's car.
	underline	Have you read Harry Potter?
	underscore	b_l@cia.gov
	round brackets	I went to Bangkok (my favourite city) and stayed there for two weeks.
	square brackets	The newspaper reported that the hostages [most of them French] had been released.
	ellipsis mark	One happy customer wrote: "This is the best program...that I have ever seen."