• A period looks like this:

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• A period is:
• also called a full stop, or full point
• commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences
• used after abbreviations, such as Mr., Dr., Mrs., Ms. 

• The United States of America is located on the continent of North America.
• There are 50 states in the U.S. Forty-eight of the states form the contiguous United States.
• The U.S. borders on Canada to the north, and Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico to the south.
• On the east coast, the U.S. is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west coast it is bordered by the Pacific Ocean.
• To the northwest of Canada is the state of Alaska.
• The state of Hawaii is located in the Pacific Ocean, southwest of California.