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Ashish Puncation
Ashish Puncation
Quotation marks, also called quotes, quote marks, quotemarks, speech marks,
inverted commas or talking marks,[1][2] are punctuation marks used in pairs in
various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair
consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or
may not be the same character.[3]
Bracket
ROUND BRACKET
A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to
set apart or interject other text. Used unqualified, brackets refer to different types of
brackets in different parts of the world and in different contexts.
( ) parentheses, brackets (UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia), parens, round
brackets, soft brackets, or circle brackets
SQUAR BRACKET
In addition to referring to the class of all types of brackets, the unqualified word
bracket is most commonly used to refer to a specific type of bracket. In modern
American usage this is usually the square bracket and in modern British usage this
is usually the parenthesis.
DASH
The dash is a punctuation mark that is similar to a hyphen or minus sign, but differs
from both of these symbols primarily in length and function. The most common
versions of the dash are the en dash () and the em dash (), named for the length
of a typeface's lower-case n and upper-case M respectively.