Ted's Punctuation Guide

<META name="description" content="This is a punctuation guide describing how to use the period, ellipsis, comma, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, quotation marks, parentheses, apostrophe, hyphen, dash, and capitalization."> <BODY TEXT="#FFFFFF" LINK="#FFFFC0" ALINK="#CB996B" VLINK="#A67D32" BACKGROUND="graphics/vellum2.jpg" BGCOLOR="#528CAD"> <CENTER><IMG SRC="graphics/pnctguid.gif" WIDTH="326" HEIGHT="22"></CENTER> <BR><BR> <FONT FACE="comic sans ms" SIZE=4><P><B>Your browser does not display frames.  Therefore, this information on punctuation will be presented in a standard broswer format.  Click on the buttons below to see an overview and to learn more about each particular punctuation mark.</B></P> <CENTER> <TABLE CELLPADDING=10 WIDTH=60%> <TR ALIGN=center> <TD><A HREF="overview-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/overview.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="Punctuation Overview"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="period-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/period.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="."></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="ellipsis-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/ellipsis.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="..."></A></TD> </TR> <TR ALIGN=center> <TD><A HREF="comma-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/comma.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT=","></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="smicolon-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/smicolon.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT=";"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="colon-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/colon.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT=":"></A></TD> </TR> <TR ALIGN=center> <TD><A HREF="qustnmrk-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/qustnmrk.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="?"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="exctnmrk-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/exctnmrk.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="!"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="quotmrks-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/quotmrks.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="'' '' & ' '"></A></TD> </TR> <TR ALIGN=center> <TD><A HREF="prnthses-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/prnthses.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="( )"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="brackets-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/brackets.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="[ ]"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="apstrphe-b.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/apstrphe.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="'"></A></TD> </TR> <TR ALIGN=center> <TD><A HREF="hyphen.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/hyphen.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="-"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="dash.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/dash.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="--"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="cptztion.html"><IMG SRC="graphics/cptztion.gif" WIDTH="122" HEIGHT="22" BORDER="3" ALT="A B C"></A></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </CENTER> </FONT><FONT SIZE=4><P ALIGN=center><B><I>Return to <A HREF="../index.html#links" TARGET="_blank">Ted’s HOMEPAGE <IMG SRC="graphics/orangeL.gif" ALIGN=bottom BORDER=0 WIDTH=17 HEIGHT=15></A></I></B> </P> </BODY>