Period can be used as a noun to refer to a specific length of time. It is often used in expressions such as over a period, during a period and a period of time.
We’ll observe the patient’s weight for a period of three months.
During this period, we normally get a lot of rain.
Period can also be used to talk about a time in a person’s life or in history. It often has an adjective in front of it.
I went through a difficult period when I returned to the UK.
The Elizabethan period was famous for its playwrights such as Shakespeare.
In school, we can use period to refer to a part of a day when a specific subject is taught.
I have maths in the second period on Tuesday.
Mrs Jackson takes us for art in the last period on a Friday.
Period in American English refers to the punctuation mark which shows the end of a sentence. In British English we refer to this as a ’full-stop’.
Is that a period or a comma?
Some writers need to use more periods in their paragraphs as their sentences are too long.
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