Slovene punctuation the clause keeps its own punctuation mark. A question mark need not be a sentence terminating punctuation mark; it may be used in inserted sentences. In certain cases, the question mark may be doubled (for emphasis of a repeated question), or it may be combined with an exclamation mark in emphatic and emotional contexts. Non-Syntactical Use A question mark can be used non-syntactically if it denotes doubt. Syntactical Use A colon (:) is a left-leaning punctuation mark. It is used in various ways as described below. 1. to introduce direct speech after an accompanying sentence 2. in enumeration, expatiation or
Slovene punctuation to illustrate that a word is not used as it normally is, or simply to emphasise it. Usually, in printed texts, such words are printed either "italic" or bold as opposed to using excessive quotes. Inverted commas are also used to mark proper nouns that could be mistaken for common nouns, such as at sentence beginnings. A dash (–) is a one or two part non-leaning punctuation mark (except where noted). Semantically, there is no difference between the longer and the shorter dash, – and –, although common usage prefers the shorter one in all cases except upon connection of