While the earliest forms of writing laid the (0) FOUNDATION, the alphabet and punctuation marks we use today have a fascinating history of their own. Over centuries, small changes helped shape the system we now take for granted. The modern European alphabet is based the Greek and to other European countries under the Romans. A number of changes took as time The Romans added the letter G, and the letters J and V were to people in Shakespeare's time. If we the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts. The Romans used to write a question at the end of a sentence in to show that it was a question. They started to write Qo in of the whole word, and then put the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark'?'.