You know your periods from your parentheses and your commas from your colons, but do you know the difference between braces and brackets? Do you really know how to use a semicolon, or do you just close your eyes and hope it works? In English, there are 16 punctuation marks — the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon, em dash, en dash, hyphen, parentheses, brackets, braces, apostrophe, double quotation marks, single quotation marks, and ellipsis — and they’re not as scary as they look.

Here is a handy chart that keeps all 16 punctuation marks at your fingertips.

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