What are the different punctuation marks called?

The punctuation marks are: period, comma, question mark, hyphen, dash, parentheses, apostrophe, ellipsis, quotation mark, colon, semicolon, exclamation point. read more

When quotation marks sit next to periods and commas, there are two styles of punctuation. These two styles are most commonly referred to as "American" and "British"; the British one is also called "logical quotation". read more

The word for the punctuation mark, on the other hand, comes from κῶλον (or kōlon), which means ‘limb’ or ‘clause’ – and it is used because one of the main functions of the colon is to separate two clauses, where the second clause explains or follows from the first. read more