| A | B |
| apostrophe | the mark (') used to indicate the ommission of one or more letters from a printed word |
| colon | a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation. |
| comma | a punctuation mark ,() used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence |
| exclamation point | the punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation |
| hyphen | a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text. |
| period | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate the full stop or after abbreviations. |
| semicolon | a punctuation mark (;) use dto connect independent clauses. |
| slash | a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information. |