How to Use 14 Basic Punctuation Marks In English grammar, the rules of punctuation depend on the symbols themselves. The following list covers the most common punctuation marks in the English language. Note that British English and American English have different names for some of these marks.  1. Period: The period punctuation mark (.) is…

Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia is a word that names a sound, but also sounds like that sound. For example: boom, honk, pop, crack, cuckoo, crack, splat, tweet, zoom, sizzle, whizz, buzz, hiss, rip. Related: Figurative language The following onomatopoeia examples are all food/cooking sounds: These onomatopoeia examples are all water sounds / the sound that water makes:…