NOUN
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a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
in England they call a period a stop
How To Use full stop In A Sentence
- What if they don't like commas or full stops or capital letters? Times, Sunday Times
- It would be better to insert a conjunctional word or a full stop between the two statements. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
- It was several more minutes before the tender pulled alongside the ship's hull and coasted to a full stop.
- There are photographs of ‘jilleroos’, but while nominally these are the female equivalent of ‘jackeroos’, the important difference is that jackeroos are young men getting station hand experience before passing onto something better, while jilleroos are merely female station hands full stop.
- A semicolon pause is longer than a comma pause and shorter than a period/full stop pause. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » On Semicolons
- All I suggest is that she be horsewhipped for putting a full stop wrongly outside a bracket.
- You make punctuation mistakes on a regular basis, particularly by using commas when semi-colons or full stops are required.
- He calls the kind of akrasia caused by an appetite for pleasure “unqualified akrasia” ” or, as we might say, akrasia “full stop”; akrasia caused by anger he considers a qualified form of akrasia and calls it akrasia “with respect to anger”. Aristotle's Ethics
- His personal philosophy of punctuation is, ideally, to avoid all punctuation marks except commas and full stops.
- Which then causes it to write a full stop. Times, Sunday Times