Ladies and gentlemen, I am Olga, your academic guide.

We are talking about a slash.

A slash is a punctuation mark used to indicate alternatives, representing the words “or” or “and/or”.

A slash is used to separate lines in short quotations of poetry being quoted in the running text.

When fractions are written in a sentence, a slash is used to separate the numerator from the denominator.

Sometimes a slash means “per”.

Please, note, that in a manuscript a line cannot start with a slash.

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