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Keyboard Symbols and Punctuation Marks
What are these symbols?
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Look at the keys across the top of the computer keyboard.
~ This is called a ___.
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tilde
` This is called a ___.
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grave or grave accent
! This is called an ___.
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exclamation mark
@ This symbol means ___.
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at
# This symbol means ___.
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number
$ This is called a ___.
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dollar sign
% This symbol means ___.
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per cent
^ This symbol is called a ___.
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caret or circumflex
& This symbol is called an ___ and means ___.
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ampersand - and
* This symbol is called an ___.
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asterisk
( ) These two marks are called ___.
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parentheses
- This is called a ___.
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hyphen
+ This symbol is called a ___.
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plus sign
= This symbol is called an ___.
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equal sign
Look around the computer keyboard.
{ } These marks are called ___.
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braces
[ ] These marks are called ___.
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brackets
: This is called a ___.
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colon
; This is called a ___.
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semicolon
" " These marks are called ___.
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quotation marks or quotes
" " In British English, these marks are called ___.
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inverted commas
' This is called an ___.
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apostrophe
, This is called a ___.
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comma
. This is called a ___.
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period
. In British English, this is called a ___.
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full stop
... Three periods together are called an ___.
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ellipsis
? This is called a ___.
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question mark
/ This is called a ___.
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forward slash or virgule
\ This is called a ___.
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back slash
< > These marks are called ___.
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angle brackets
Copyright
(C) 1999 Nevitt Reagan (
nevitt@gol.com
)
This quiz is part of the
HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes
which is part of
Activities for ESL Students
, a project by
The Internet TESL Journal
.