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Punctuation can play an important part in academic writing in showing the relationship between ideas. Punctuation markers add meaning to the words they are with, so you need to make careful choices when you use them.

The most significant markers are:

: the colon

; the semi-colon

- ... - dashes

( ... ) brackets

Other markers will be presented, discussed and practised elsewhere.

On these pages you can:

You can also study sentence punctuation in sentences with 1 or more independent clauses, plus punctuation problems and appropriate punctuation here!

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