What is a symbol in English Grammar?

Please include examples along with the explanation!

2 Answers
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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