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Topic: LETTERS AND PUNCTUATION

speech marks

 noun
     
speech marks [plural] British English
SLA the marks (' ') or (" "), that show when someone starts speaking and when they stop [= quotation marks]
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A ABC alpha alphabet alphabetical asterisk B beta brace bracket(n) bracket(v) C capital(n) capital(a) capitalize clause colon comma Cyrillic D dash delta ditto E F G gamma Gothic grave H I IPA J K L letter M N O oblique omega P period punctuation Q question mark R rune S script slash small star T U V W X Y Z

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