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
Punctuation of English "British" (typically used in the UK, Ireland, and most of the Commonwealth of Nations) and "American" (also common in Canada and places with a strong American influence on local English, as in the Philippines). These two styles differ mainly in the way in which they handle quotation marks with adjacent punctuation, and the use or omission of the full point (period) with contraction abbreviations. The terms "open" and "closed punctuation" have been applied to minimizing versus comprehensively including punctuation, respectively, aside from any dialectal trends. Closed punctuation is used in scholarly, literary, general business, and "everyday" writing. Open style dominates