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Apostrophes and hyphens are classified as punctuation marks
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Standard reference works, grammar guides, and linguistic sources consistently classify both apostrophes and hyphens as punctuation marks.

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Wikipedia: Apostrophe
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Book: Variational Text Linguistics
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Explicitly refers to apostrophes and hyphens as punctuation.
linguistics.stackexchange.com: Are apostrophes and hyphens punctuation marks?
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Notes that Webster and many other sources define apostrophes and hyphens as punctuation marks.
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