The document provides an overview of punctuation marks, including their definitions and examples of usage. It covers capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, brackets, apostrophes, quotation marks, and ellipses. Additionally, it includes exercises for practicing the correct use of punctuation in sentences.
The document provides an overview of punctuation marks, including their definitions and examples of usage. It covers capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, brackets, apostrophes, quotation marks, and ellipses. Additionally, it includes exercises for practicing the correct use of punctuation in sentences.
The document provides an overview of punctuation marks, including their definitions and examples of usage. It covers capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, brackets, apostrophes, quotation marks, and ellipses. Additionally, it includes exercises for practicing the correct use of punctuation in sentences.
The document provides an overview of punctuation marks, including their definitions and examples of usage. It covers capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, brackets, apostrophes, quotation marks, and ellipses. Additionally, it includes exercises for practicing the correct use of punctuation in sentences.
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Punctuation and commands
What came into your mind when you saw the topic? Yes, it is punctuation. How do you begin and end sentences? Of course, you use the capital letter at the beginning and end with a full stop which we call “period.” How many punctuation marks do know? Can you quick write them down? However, today we are going to look at the commonly used ones. Here is the list of the punctuation marks.
1. Capital letters- these are used to begin sentences, proper nouns, titles, days of the week, months and many others. For example: The river is flowing swiftly. 2. Full stop or period (.)- is placed at the end of a declaration sentence or statements thought to be complete or after abbreviations. For example: Lisa went to the movies last night. The competition will be held on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. 3. Question mark (?)- indicates a direct question when placed at the end of a sentence. For example: When are you going fishing? 4. Exclamation mark (!)- is used when a person expresses surprise, emphasis or even anger. For example:” Oh my God!” “I can’t believe this! 5. Comma (,) is used to show a separation of ideas or elements in a series. For example: Peter, John and James are best friends. 6. Semicolon (;) is used to connect independent clauses. It shows closer relation between clauses and period (full stop). For example: Thamu is a good athlete; she said his to upset him after he lost his title. 7. Colon (:) has three uses: is used when making a list of items on a quotation, when giving an explanation and when giving example or a series of items. For example: When you go camping you require the following items: backpack, tents, water bottles, a map and food supply. 8. Dash and hyphen (-) is used to separate words into a statement or when stating a range. For example: the worst outbreak was in 1992-1994. 9. Hyphen (-) is used to join to or more words to form a compound. For example: well-known, part-time. 10. Brackets .braces and parentheses {} [] these are used to contain further explanations or thoughts in a text. For example: Liberty (the new neighbour) is the leader of the rescue team. 11. Apostrophe, quotation and ellipsis -(‘) (, (‘’) (…) an apostrophe is used to indicate a missing letter or letters in a word. For example: can’t
Quotation marks are used to indicate the beginning and end of a text attributed to another especially when you quote another person’s words. For example: “I don’t like going out at night”, said Jane. Ellipsis is commonly represented by three periods…. or by asterisks***. Now that we have done these punctuation marks, complete the following table with the correct punctuation mark.
Exercise 1 Put the correct punctuation mark at the end of each sentence. 1. Sally is my sister’s friend 2. What time is it 3. Don’t speak to your mother like that 4. Good morning Did you sleep well 5. Oh dear Did he hurt himself 6. Mom asked if I had cleaned my room 7. Help I’m falling 8. Could you open a window, please 9. He’s very handsome, isn’t he 10. What a lovely day
Exercise 2 Rewrite the following sentences by putting commas and apostrophes in the correct places. 1. This food is delicious isnt it? 2. Hello David. Have you seen Toms new bike? 3. “Good morning children” said Miss Lee. 4. I cant speak French very well. 5. Excuse me Mr. Chen. Could you help me with this question please. 6. Sams mom bought rice eggs and flour. 7. Yes thank you. Ive had a lovely day. 8. Shes my big brothers girlfriend.
Exercise 3
Put capital letters in the correct places as you rewrite these sentences. 1. have you seen mr. chikerema? 2. can I help with the cooking, mom? 3. we went to kariba for a holiday. 4. “do you like my new car?” asked uncle samuel. 5. we visited victoria falls and saw the statue of rhodes. 6. my friend doesn’t speak english. 7. they spent christmas in thsolotsho. 8. we went to the library on thursday. 9. were you born in june or july? 10. have you read the coming of the dry season by c.r.r. mungoshi? 11. they’re going to namibia next summer. 12. have a good day, mrs. ndlovu.
