Full Stop (Noun)
Meaning
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The teacher instructed her students to use a full stop at the end of each sentence for clarity.
- To write a complete sentence, it's essential to place a full stop at the end of your sentence.
- A full stop is a punctuation mark that consists of a single dot placed directly after the last word of a sentence.
- In British English, a full stop is used as a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence, just like a period in American English.
- The precise difference between a full stop and other punctuation marks was discussed in the linguistics class.