English Should Be Easier

A semi-colon connects two thoughts together An exclamation mark screams out its cause You don’t have to wait until the end to breathe a comma can give you a pause A question mark begs for an answer Quotations usually mean this is not mine A colon tells me there is a list or the second and first parts are combined Then there is the hyphen, En dash, and Em dash It’s really hard to tell them apart The hyphen is the shortest and Em is longer to explain them I would not know where to start Don’t forget about parentheses and apostrophes Slashes, brackets, ellipses, and…other stuff But my favorite punctuation is the period it tells me when enough is enough.