ENGLISH LESSON - Names of the Keyboard Characters
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~ tilde
~
! exclamation point
~!
@ the "at" sign
3 apples @ $2/apple
= $6
asdfasd@hotmail.com
~!@
# the pound sign
the hash symbol
the number sign
~!@#
$ the dollar sign
% the percent sign
^ carat
the little hat
& ampersand
Lennon & McCartney
and
* asterisk
star
() round brackets
left
right
_ underscore
+ plus sign
` tick mark
1234567890
- hyphen
minus sign
dash I saw something --
= equals sign
QWERTYUIOP
{} squiggly brackets
left right
braces
| pipe symbol
vertical line
bar
qwertyuiop
[] square brackets
left right
\ back-slash
ASDFGHJKL
: colon
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
" quotation marks
double quote
asdfghjkl
; semi-colon
I saw something; it was red.
' apostrophe isn't Bob's dog
single quote
ZXCVBNM
<> angle brackets
left right
< is less than
> is greater than
?
zxcvbnm
, comma apples, oranges, and bananas
apples, oranges and bananas
I came in, and saw the dog.
I came in and saw the dog.
. period
dot
/ slash
