punctuation
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He said he wouldn't be taking the Zero Punctuation name with him, but fans would hear his voice again "soon, in a new place".
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
While quotations are covered more extensively in Punctuation, this section will introduce you to using quotations in a review.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Punctuation activism can be an important companion to on-the-ground activism.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2021
I’m guessing that’s because of the frightening way the period is represented in this show — kind of the Voldemort of social media, The Punctuation Mark That Must Never Be Used .
From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2018
Punctuation, together with other graphical indicators such as italics, capitalization, and spacing, developed over the history of printed language to do two things.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Vocabulary lists containing punctuation
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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