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punct› Joins the components of compounds.
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Punctuation Joins the components of coordinative compounds, with equal components.
- secretary‐general; yellow‐green; a here‐today‐gone‐tomorrow attitude; kitchen‐dinette‐office
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Punctuation Joins the components of subordinative compounds, with a dominant component or head.
- a has‐been; cholesterol‐free; short‐changing
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Punctuation Joins prefixes and suffixes according to stylistic rules, often to avoid confusion in pronunciation or meaning.
- ultra‐ambitious
- I must re‐press the shirt.
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Punctuation Connects words in a compound modifier according to various stylistic rules.
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Internet, Punctuation Used as sentence-final punctuation.
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apostrophe, curly brackets, brace, square bracket, bracket, colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation mark, fraction slash, guillemet, hyphen, interpunct, interrobang, parentheses (US, Canada), full stop, period, question mark, quotation marks, semicolon, slash, stroke, space