Serial comma toast. Adding a serial comma removes this ambiguity. Writers who normally avoid the serial comma often use one in these circumstances, although sometimes re-ordering the elements of such a list can help as well. In some circumstances using the serial comma can create ambiguity. If the book dedication above is changed to the serial comma after "Ayn Rand" creates ambiguity about the writer's mother because it uses punctuation identical to that used for an appositive phrase, leaving it unclear whether this is a list of three entities (1, my mother; 2, Ayn Rand; and 3, God) or of only two
Slovene punctuation part. Syntactical Use An exclamation mark (!) is a left-leaning punctuation mark. It is used as a closing punctuation mark of emphatic sentences and clauses, and as a non-closing punctuation mark finishing inserted sentences. They are typical of imperative mood, but only if emotionally charged. See the note on the use of the combination with a question mark below under question mark. One may use the combination "!!" (or even more exclamation marks) to express further exclamatory mood. Non-Syntactical Use An exclamation mark may be used for emphasis of a certain point in a text. Syntactical Use A question mark