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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