Japanese punctuation what follows proves, clarifies, explains, or simply enumerates elements of what is referred to before. Although not a native Japanese punctuation mark, the colon is sometimes used, especially in academic writing. As in English, the colon is commonly used in Japanese to indicate time (, instead of or ) or for lists ( Day/time: March 3, 4:05pm). The is usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume, and generally marks the end of a sentence. A sentence ending in an exclamation mark is either an actual exclamation ("Wow!", "Boo!"), a command ("Stop!"), or is
Slovene punctuation it 'touches' the preceding word, but is followed by a space. It is ordinarily used at the end of a neutral declaratory sentence, be it a real sentence with a predicate or a non-sentence. When a statement is articulated, the pitch is cadent, thus decreased towards the end of such a sentence. In an indicative compound sentence with the last part an independent clause that does not end in a full stop, the full stop is omitted. The final punctuation mark of a quoted sentence (with or without inverted commas) within a declaratory sentence is omitted if the quoted sentence