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Keyboard Symbols and Punctuation Marks

What are these symbols?
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Look at the keys across the top of the computer keyboard.

  1. ~ This is called a ___.

  2. ` This is called a ___.

  3. ! This is called an ___.

  4. @ This symbol means ___.

  5. # This symbol means ___.

  6. $ This is called a ___.

  7. % This symbol means ___.

  8. ^ This symbol is called a ___.

  9. & This symbol is called an ___ and means ___.

  10. * This symbol is called an ___.

  11. ( ) These two marks are called ___.

  12. - This is called a ___.

  13. + This symbol is called a ___.

  14. = This symbol is called an ___.

Look around the computer keyboard.

  1. { } These marks are called ___.

  2. [ ] These marks are called ___.

  3. : This is called a ___.

  4. ; This is called a ___.

  5. " " These marks are called ___.

  6. " " In British English, these marks are called ___.

  7. ' This is called an ___.

  8. , This is called a ___.

  9. . This is called a ___.

  10. . In British English, this is called a ___.

  11. ... Three periods together are called an ___.

  12. ? This is called a ___.

  13. / This is called a ___.

  14. \ This is called a ___.

  15. < > These marks are called ___.

Copyright (C) 1999 Nevitt Reagan (nevitt@gol.com)
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.