Slovene punctuation Slovene punctuation Punctuation marks are one or two part graphical marks used in writing, denoting tonal progress, pauses, sentence type (syntactic use), abbreviations, et cetera. Marks used in Slovene include full stops (.), question marks (?), exclamation marks (!), commas (,), semicolons (;), colons (:), dashes (–), hyphens (-), ellipses (...), different types of inverted commas and quotation marks ("", <nowiki>"</nowiki>, ‚‘, „“, »«), brackets ((), [], {}) (which are in syntactical use), as well as apostrophes (',’), solidi (/), equal signs (=), and so forth. Syntactical Use A full stop (.) is a left-leaning punctuation mark. This means that
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