What is a symbol in English Grammar?

Please include examples along with the explanation!

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Qinglong Diep
May 4, 2018

Symbols have a symboltic relationship with the story. For example, let take Holden's red hunting hat from The Catcher in the Rye. It symbolised that it a symbol of alienatation (Litcharts - Holden's Red Hunting Hat )

CountryGirl
May 5, 2018

Punctuation marks are symbols in English Grammar.

Explanation:

I'm a little confused as to what you want as a "symbol", but punctuation marks are symbols used in English grammar. Here are some punctuation marks:

#? = "question mark"#

#! = "exclamation mark"#

#, = "comma"#

#' = "apostrophe"#

#. = "period"#

#: = "colon"#

#; = "semicolon"#

" #=# #"quotation marks"#

#( ) = "parentheses"#

#... = "ellipsis"#

#/ = "slash mark"#

There are some symbols that aren't considered punctuation that are used in writing sometimes:

#$ = "dollar sign"#

#% = "percent"#

#& = "ampersand"#

#"* = asterisk"#

Hope this is helpful!

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