Even native speakers have trouble with these punctuation marks when writing English.

即使是以英语为母语的人，在写英语时也会遇到使用这些标点符号的难题。

Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti.

双重功能之因, 让人摸门不着。

The last punctuation mark we are going to talk about today is the apostrophe.

我们今天要讲的最后一个是撇号。

Before emoji, emoticons had let you express how you felt by using combinations of punctuation marks.

在 emoji 出现之前，表情符号可以让你通过使用标点符号的组合来表达你的感受。

Punctuation marks and other things like spaces and indents help the reader understand the structure and organization of writing.

标点符号和其他如空格和缩进能帮助读者理解文章的组织结构。

As you can see, the placement of this punctuation mark can really change the meaning of a sentence.

如你所见，这符号所在的位置会改变整句话的意思。

We used these terms to name our punctuation marks—although they actually refer to the clauses not to the dots themselves.

我们用这些术语来命名我们的标点符号。尽管这些术语的本意是指停顿而非标点本身？

[Voiceover] So this is a superhero punctuation mark.

- [画外音] 所以这是一个超级英雄标点符号。

Period - we're not talking about the pronunciation mark, no - the punctuation mark either.

句点 - 我们不是在谈论发音标记， 不 - 标点符号。

[David] It's weird, it's like the Bermuda Triangle of punctuation marks.

- [大卫] 这很奇怪，就像标点符号的百慕大三角。