Punctuation Marks

Front 1

Uses of semicolon

Back 1

1. To combine two thematically similar issues of a sentence without the use of a conjunction

(eg, I like your sister ; she is very beautiful)

2. To separate items in a list when those items already contain commas

(eg, my favorite posts include cats, who are sleek and demanding; rabbits, who are funny and kind ; and dogs, who are friendly and loyal. )

Front 2

Hyphen

Back 2

1. Is used to combine two words (eg, African-American)

2. Is used without spaces before or after the hyphen

Front 3

Hyphens and numbers

Back 3

1. Numbers above twenty are hyphenated (E G., twenty-one, sixty-nine)

2. Fractions are hyphenated unless the numerator or the denominator are already hyphenated (eg, three-fifths, two-fifths, but thirty-one sixty-fifths, nine twenty-fourths)

Front 4

Dash

Back 4

1. Has space before and after

2. In informal speech, it is used to add parenthetical expression (eg, I may go to the party - but perhaps I will not,).

Front 5

Brackets

Back 5

In formal language, is used to add parenthetical information.

Front 6

Parentheses

Back 6

Used to add parenthetical information, and can almost always be replaced by commas.