The simplest punctuation can sometimes cause the most confusion when writing a document; in this section we take a look at the use of the following: Capitals, Exclamation Marks, Brackets and Parentheses.

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Although you will still see the double quotation marks used to quote direct speech it is more and more common to punctuate speech and direct quotations with single quotation marks with the double quotation marks reserved for quoting ’speech within speech’.

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The Apostrophe

The apostrophe probably causes more grief than any of the other punctuation marks put together!

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Use the question mark:

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The semicolon is somewhere between a weak full stop and a strong comma and used to join phrases and sentences without having to use a conjunction (and, but etc.) where the phrases or sentences are thematically linked but independent.

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