1. Put a period at the end of every sentence not signaled by a question word or intonation pattern as question or exclamation.
The carpenter has just come.
Please maintain silence inside the church.
The person speaking is my teacher.
Sometimes, the sentence intonation justifies the use of a period with a word or words constituting less than a complete grammatical sentence.
No, ma'am.
Thanks.
Never.
Especially in business correspondence, a request in the form of a question may be followed by a period instead of a question mark. Spoken, such a request has a falling intonation pattern.
May we request your good office to conduct an investigation regarding this matter.
2. Use three periods in a row, called an ellipsis, to show omission within a quoted passage.
Never forget to check the gas .... the door lock ....
The second ellipsis of three periods is followed by another period to indicate the end of the sentence.
3. Use periods for abbreviations.
E.A. Poe was a great poet and short-story writer.
4. Don't use periods for abbreviations that are commonly used.
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5. In Britain, periods are omitted but in American-oriented Englishes the periods are retain for the following examples.
Dr.
Mr.
Ms.
6. A period used for an abbreviation can be followed by any other punctuation mark except by another period.
The C.T., having no choice at all, submitted to the request.
The request was granted by the C.T.
7. Periods are also used for decimals, for cents when the currency sign is present and for parts or divisions of books and other printed materials.
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Genesis 4.7
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