Punctuation
The function and placement of each mark of punctuation, from the comma and the apostrophe to the dash, the ellipsis, and the slash, ordered by mark.
Period
Comma
- comma
- appositive / apposition
- comma before a coordinating conjunction
- comma before because
- comma before quoted speech
- comma splice
- comma with dates, addresses, and place-names
- comma with however
- comma with introductory elements
- comma with nonrestrictive clauses
- comma with quotation marks
- coordinate adjectives: commas between equal modifiers
- coordinate and cumulative adjectives
- dependent clauses: when to use a comma
- direct address: commas around a name or title
- opening interjections: comma after yes, no, oh, and well
- Oxford comma (serial comma)
- restrictive / nonrestrictive appositives
- run-on sentence / fused sentence
Also covers commas
- colon before lists
- conjunctive adverbs and semicolons
- date formats
- decimal and comma
- e.g. / i.e.: meaning and punctuation
- numbers: commas, decimals, and thousands
- parentheses vs. dashes vs. commas
- restrictive / nonrestrictive clauses
- semicolons: lists with commas inside the items
- that / which in relative clauses
Semicolon
Colon
- colon
- colon after an independent clause
- colon and semicolon with quotation marks
- colon before lists
- colon with quotations and subtitles
Also covers colons
Question Mark
Exclamation Point
Also covers exclamation points
Apostrophe
- apostrophe
- apostrophe in decades
- apostrophe plurals
- apostrophe possessive
- collective possessives
- compound possession: shared and individual ownership
- contractions and apostrophes
- double genitive
- each other possessive
- names ending in s: possessive
- plural of years and abbreviations
- possessives of compound nouns
Also covers apostrophes
Quotation Marks
- quotation marks
- italics / quotation marks for titles
- quotation marks for emphasis
- quotation marks with words as words
- quotation marks: single / double
- titles: choosing italics or quotation marks