PUNCTUATION MARK

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | 190 words | Copyright

PUNCTUATION MARK. Any one of a set of conventional marks or characters used in organizing written and printed language, such as a comma (,) or an exclamation mark/point (!). See PUNCTUATION.

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