The hardest—and easiest—punctuation marks to use

This infographic ranks all fifteen punctuation marks according how difficult they are to learn and use. Do you agree with these ratings?

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The ellipsis sounds a little intimidating, and people frequently misuse apostrophes. Perhaps you’re thinking it’s one of those.

It’s not.

The hardest punctuation mark to use correctly is the comma, an infographic from TheVisualCommunicationGuy.com claims. That’s because it has more rules and applications than any other punctuation mark.

The infographic ranks each punctuation mark according to how many applications it has, and therefore, how difficult it is to learn.

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