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Learn About The Full Stop

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A full stop or period (also called a full point), is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and several other languages. A full stop consists of a small dot placed at the end of a line of text, such as at the end of this sentence.

The term full stop is less common in the United States and Canada, but is generally differentiated from period in contexts where both might be used: a full stop is specifically a delimiting piece of punctuation that represents the end a sentence. When a distinction is made, a period is then any appropriately sized and placed dot in English language text, including use in abbreviations (such as U.K.) and at the ends of sentences, but excluding certain special uses of dots at the bottom of a line of text, such as ellipses.

The word “period” is also used vernacularly in the US and Canada, to terminate a phrase or thought with finality and emphasis, as in “I told him I was leaving him, period.” The term full stop is used in the same sense in the U.K. and Ireland.

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