full stop
comma
colon
semi-colon
exclamation mark
question mark
apostrophe
quotation marks
hyphen
brackets (not sure if they are parentheses)
dash
forward slash
OK. Jem, I admit that I attempted a list and then gave up, but that was partly because I wasn't sure whether you were counting possessive apostrophes as separate from apostrophes denoting missing letters. Similarly are 'speech marks' counted as one form of punctuation mark or (because of 'opening' and 'closing') as two.
There are also some people who would recognise the hyphen (when not used to conjoin words) as a form of punctuation, but others who would reject the notion.
I also note that I've just used an 'Oxford comma'. Do you count that as different to a 'normal' comma?
I certainly remember that way of starting a list. It's the way that I was taught to do it at school but I now use the shorter form. (I'm old enough to remember being taught to precede the word "bus" by an apostrophe, in order to show that it's an abbreviation for "omnibus"!)
I still find myself using an apostrophe before "phone" (as a verb) even now, Boxy. Strangely, I doubt that I'd use it before the noun.
MarK:
I'd agree that Boxy was 'well educated' (and include myself within that description) if I could see that the hyphen/dash after the colon actually served any purpose. It appears to be completely superfluous!
The fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar:
Full stpp, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,question mark, exclamation mark, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellip ses.
I'll show my age too....we used to have to write sha'n't to indicate the missing ll from 'shall' and o from 'not'. Now the word seems to be more or less obsolete anyway, replaced by won't.
Mollykins, strictly speaking, ((())) are parentheses and [[[]]] are brackets. For most purposes people use ((())) and call them brackets. [[[]]] are most commonly used (you probably know this if you write essays) when indicating that words have been left out of something you're quoting.
tearinghair, I remember that too. The different between shall and will is being eroded. One of my pet hates is "I would like to invite you to..." - well, please do it, what's stopping you?