Usage:
1. period: used at the end of a sentence to express the tone of the statement. Sometimes, it can also express a gentler imperative mood and sigh tone.
2. Question mark: used at the end of a sentence to indicate interrogative tone (including rhetorical questions and rhetorical questions). When multiple interrogative sentences are used together or the interrogative tone is aggravated, question marks can be used repeatedly.
3. Exclamation mark: used at the end of a sentence, which mainly expresses an exclamation tone, and sometimes a strong imperative mood, rhetorical question, etc. After onomatopoeia, it means that the sound is short or sudden.
4. Comma: The pause between clauses in a complex sentence is usually a comma and sometimes a semicolon.
5. Pause: A period in a sentence, indicating a pause between coordinate words or after some ordinal numbers in a paragraph. Used between coordinate words;
6. Semicolon: The point in a sentence indicates the pause between clauses in a coordinate relationship in a complex sentence, and the pause between first-level clauses in multiple complex sentences that are not in a coordinate relationship.
7. Colon: a period in a sentence, indicating a pause in a paragraph, prompting the following content or summarizing the above content. Used after general or suggestive words, it means to prompt the following.
8. Quotation marks: mark the contents directly quoted in a paragraph, mark the contents that need to be emphasized or emphasized, and mark the components that have special meanings and need to be pointed out in particular.
9. Parentheses: Notes, supplementary explanations or other statements with specific meanings in marked paragraphs.
10. Dash: indicates the content of a note or supplementary explanation: indicates brackets: indicates the above summary or the following tip: indicates the change of the topic; Mark the prolongation of sound.
1 1. Ellipsis: indicates the omission of the reference; Represents the omission of enumerated or repeated words; Explain that the meaning is not complete.
12. Title: indicate the title, volume, article, publication, newspaper, file name, etc. Mark the names of films, television, music, poems, sculptures and other works expressed in words, sounds, images, etc.
Function:
1. Punctuation marks are auxiliary symbols of written language, and are an organic part of written language, which are used to express pause, mood and the nature and function of words.
2. Commonly used punctuation marks are 10, which are divided into dot and punctuation.
The role of dots is punctuation, which mainly indicates the pause and tone when speaking. Point the end point and the middle point of a sentence. The dots at the end of the sentence are used at the end of the sentence, including periods, question marks and exclamation marks, indicating the pause at the end of the sentence and the tone of the sentence. The dots in the sentence are used in the sentence, including commas, pauses, semicolons and colons, indicating various pauses in the sentence.