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Two marks which we used in adding punctuation are the exclamation point and the question
mark. Now I don't know what hand you're writing in, so I'm going to assume an italic slant
here. But it would make sense that if you're not doing italic, that you're doing a roman
hand that you would make these vertical rather than slanted. So we'll start with the exclamation
point, which is simply a straight line, which is not complete. So if we look at an "L",
let's say, (and again I'm using an italic slant here) we're going to stop about 2/3
of the way down, and then balance a diamond on the base line, so there's the exclamation
point. Now, a question mark has sort of a sweeping curve in it. So we can start with
a curve, and a straight line, you can go back and make a little cap on it to finish it off,
and again we have the period or the dot poised on the base line, so, 1, 2, 3, a question
mark.