my girls homework question

[yorkslad]

can any one help, its a crossword with 11 letters, these are used to group words together in a search engine ???? im cr@p at this like that

thanks yorkslad

[forntida]

The only thing I can think of in the context given is;

apostrophes

[manster]

QUOTATION MARKS GROUP WORDS TOGETHER IN ADVANCED GOOGLE SEARCH BUT I KNOW THAT ISNT 11 LETTERS OOPS caps off

[manster]

Parenthesis !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DJSimo]

Parenthesis !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep would have to say thats the one !!

Parenthesis: a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas.

[chroma]

! = Exclamation (NOT Operator)
" = Quotation Mark (used to make exact phrases)
_ = Underscore (Used to join words)
- = Subtraction operator (used to exclude words)
+ = Addition operator (Used to make words mandatory)
[] = Brackets (used to encapsulate a query)
* = Wildcard (used to replace any number of letters to make a word, Agrophobia could be donoted as *phobia)
? = Single wildcard (simmilar to * but replaces only the first letter S?oon would search for spoon, swoon etc)
() = Parentheses (used as a grouping operator to allow an operator to work on all or only some of an expression)
| = Or operator (used as a logical or, THIS | THAT will show results with THIs in it or THAT but not both at the samwe time)
& = Ampersand (Logical and operator THIS & THAT, will show results only contining both this and that)
{} = Braces (Used to encapsulate expressions into a function)

Im certain there are more operators that are less commonly used, but i cant think of any off the top of my head at present.