विराम चिन्ह

1. Period (.) - is used in the end of the sentence. However we put a period at the end of an indirect question.
Period (.) चिन्ह का प्रयोग वाक्य के अंत में किया जाता है. इसका प्रयोग हम indirect question के अंत में भी करते हैं
Eg: Rome is the capital of Italy.

2. Question Mark (?) - We use question marks to make clear that what is said is a question. When we use a question mark, we do not use a full stop.
Question Mark (?) का प्रयोग हम तब करते हैं जब कोई प्रश्न पूछा जा रहा हो.
Eg: Why do they make so many mistakes?

3. Quotation Mark (" ") - are a pair of punctuation marks used primarily to mark the beginning and end of a passage attributed to another and repeated word for word. They are also used to indicate meanings and to indicate the unusual or dubious status of a word.
Eg: "Don't go outside," she said.
Single quotation marks (') are used most frequently for quotes within quotes.
Eg: Marie told the teacher, "I saw Marc at the playground, and he said to me 'Bill started the fight,' and I believed him."

4. Exclamation Point (!) - We use exclamation marks to indicate an exclamative clause or expression in informal writing. When we want to emphasise something in informal writing, we sometimes use more than one exclamation mark: विस्मयादिबोधक चिह्न का उपयोग हम तब करतें हैं जब, हम अनौपचारिक लेखन में किसी चीज़ पर ज़ोर डालना चाहते हैं.
Eg: Listen!
Oh no!!! Please don’t ask me to phone her. She’ll talk for hours!!!

5. Comma - We put a comma (,) between items in a list. We often put a comma before 'or' , 'and' or 'but' when we add a clause.
Eg: It’s important to write in clear, simple, accurate words.

6. Colon (:) - is used to introduce lists, to indicate a subtitle or to indicate a subdivision of a topic, to introduce direct speech, and between sentences when the second sentence explains or justifies the first sentence.
Eg: There are three main reasons for the success of the government: economic, social and political.

7. Semi-colon (;) - We use semi-colons to separate two main clauses. In such cases, the clauses are related in meaning but are separated grammatically.
Eg: Spanish is spoken throughout South America; in Brazil the main language is Portuguese.

8. Parentheses () - Parentheses ( ( ) ) are curved notations used to contain further thoughts or qualifying remarks. However, parentheses can be replaced by commas without changing the meaning in most cases.  Don't know the hindi
Eg: John and Jane (who were actually half brother and sister) both have red hair.

9. Hyphen - A hyphen is used to join two or more words together into a compound term and is not separated by spaces. For example, part-time, back-to-back, well-known.