Punctuation / A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically

by Frederick W. Hamilton

Absolute—Free from the usual grammatical relations.

Antecedent—That to which a relative pronoun or a relative clause refers.

Apposition—When the meaning of a noun or pronoun is made clear or emphatic by the use of another noun or pronoun, the two are said to be in apposition.

Clause—A group of words consisting of a subject and predicate with their modifiers and forming a part of a sentence; a sentence within a sentence.

Compound Sentence—A sentence consisting of several clauses.

Coördinate Clauses—Clauses of equal rank.

Declarative Sentence—A sentence which states a fact.

Exclamatory Sentence—A sentence which utters an exclamation.

Independent Adverbs—Adverbs not in grammatical relations with other words in the sentence.

Interrogative Sentence—A sentence which asks a question.