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Office of Marketing and Strategic Communications
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5433 USA
(269) 387-8400
Punctuation
There are 14 standard punctuation marks in American English.
- Period ( . )
- Exclamation point ( ! )
- Question mark ( ? )
- Comma ( , )
- Colon ( : )
- Semicolon ( ; )
- Parentheses ( ( ) )
- Brackets ( [ ] )
- Apostrophe ( ' )
- Quotation marks ( " " )
- Hyphen ( - )
- Dash ( -- )
- Ellipsis ( ... )
- Slash ( / )