How to punctuate?

16 punctuation is used as follows:

1, period. Used after a single sentence; Used after complex sentences; Used after ellipsis; A period indicating the form of a question.

2. Question mark. Used to ask the end of a sentence; Used at the end of rhetorical questions; Used to set questions at the end; Used to select the end of the question; After a single word or word used to express doubt.

3. exclamation point. Used at the end of exclamatory sentences; Used at the end of imperative sentences; Used after exclamations and response words; After onomatopoeia; Exclamation marks are used to attract people's attention and highlight the seriousness of the problem, but this form of use should not be abused; Used with a question mark to express a complicated mood.

4. Comma. Commas are frequently used in texts, and both simple sentences and complex sentences need commas. It plays a connecting role in the text.

5. Pause. Used between coordinate words and coordinate phrases; When coordinate structure is used as predicate, pause is generally used between coordinate components; Used in ordinal language, pause is used after ordinal language, which only indicates order and pause, not columns.

6. Semicolon. A semicolon is a symbol between a comma and a period. Its main function is to distinguish the levels between coordinate clauses. Used between semantically related clauses; Used between time-related clauses.

Used between clauses with contrasting contents; Used to coordinate the relationship between two clauses in multiple complex sentences; Used between the front and back parts of the first layer of multiple complex sentences with non-parallel relationship; Between the reports used for enumeration.

7. Colon. Used to cause the following words; Used before summarizing the words in the last article; Used before explanatory clauses; Used after the quotation "so-and-so"; Used to judge the word "yes"; Used in "attention", "pointing out", "proof", "example" and "as follows; After the address used for writing letters and giving speeches.

8. quotation marks. Used to indicate the part quoted in the article; Used to mark words that need to be highlighted and have special meanings in the article; Used to mark satire and satire in articles; Used to mark onomatopoeic words in the text; Used to label idioms, proverbs, two-part allegorical sayings, dialects, proverbs, etc. Cited in the text; Used to mark abbreviations in articles; Used to mark new nouns appearing in articles.

9. Parentheses. Used to annotate some words in sentences; Used to annotate the whole sentence; A description of the shape and environment of a character in a word or script, used to indicate the insertion action.

Used to indicate order; Used to indicate when or where something happened; Used to indicate the source of quotations or articles; Used to indicate the beginning and end of article transmission; Accustomed to pinyin Chinese characters; Used to explain dictionaries and entries in dictionaries; Revisions and supplements used in written language.

10 dash. A statement used to express a written explanation; Used to represent semantic transformation; Used to express the meaning of proceeding; Used to express semantic turning point; Used to express the causal relationship between statements; Used to express interjections in writing.

Used between general statements and clauses; The following is used for reference; Used to summarize the above; Used between the two parts before and after two-part allegorical sayings; Used to indicate the interruption, pause and extension of speech; Used to indicate the source and author of a statement or article; Used to identify conversations or list character items.

1 1, ellipsis. Used to indicate ellipsis in quotation; Used to indicate the ellipsis when enumerating; Used to indicate the omission of repeated statements; An ellipsis used to represent an increasing number; Ellipsis used to express meaning and ambiguity; Used to express silence or emptiness; Ellipsis used to indicate semantic interruption; Used to indicate intermittent sounds; Used to indicate the prolongation of sound.

12, key points. When writing a text, the words, words and sentences that the author thinks are particularly important or need to be emphasized can be highlighted. When using bullets, it should be noted that if there is no bullet in the original text, the bullet added by the author himself must be followed by the bullet for the author to add; If there are bullets in the original text, the author should also indicate that the bullets were added by the original author when quoting.

13, connection number. Used to connect two related nouns to form a unit of meaning; Used to connect related time and place, indicating the beginning and end of time and place; Used to connect related numbers, indicating the beginning and end of numbers; Used between related letters and Arabic numerals; Used to connect several related projects, indicating gradual development.

14, interval number. The main functions of interval signs are to indicate the boundaries between the names of some ethnic minorities or some foreigners, the boundaries between months and dates, the boundaries between appellations, the boundaries between poems, inscriptions and appellations, and the boundaries between dynasties and names.

15, the title. There are not many complicated usages of book titles, which are generally used in books, articles, newspapers, magazines, movies, plays, songs, laws and regulations. Because of the need of marking, there is also a single book title, which is used in the book title.

16, proper name. Proper nouns denote names, places and dynasties. Generally, it is only used in ancient books or some literary and historical works.