Punctuation

Punctuation

What are punctuations

• Punctuation includes marks, not words, that help the structure of a sentence and help the reader understand or navigate that sentence: Punctuation includes commas, semicolons, colons, periods, quotations, apostrophes, etc.Punctuation helps the reader know where sentences begin or end

Punctuations

• Comma: it includes a pause in a sentence or separates items in a list. We place commas after the name when we speak to a person or a group of people. Insert a comma between a day of the month and an year.

• Capital letters: they are used to begin a sentence. They are also used to begin proper nouns

• Colons:The colon : is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots placed one above the other on the same vertical line. ... A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or to introduce a quoted sentence

Punctuations

• Full stop: it is used to mark the end of an assertive or imperative sentence

• Question mark: it is used to mark direct questions

• Exclamation mark: it is used after the exclamatory sentence

• Apostrophe: it is used to show to show the possessive case

• Inverted commas or quotation marks: quotation marks are used to mark the exact words of a speaker

Punctuations

• SlashThe slash is an oblique slanting line punctuation mark /. ... Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now most often used to represent exclusive or inclusive or, division and fractions, and as a date separator

• Bracket: A bracket is a punctuation mark that's used to set a word or phrase aside from the rest of a sentence. Sometimes dates or other numbers in a sentence are enclosed by brackets. ... This is the original meaning of bracket — the punctuation mark was named for the way it resembles the carpentry support.

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Quiz time!

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an exclamation mark

• ?

• \

• !

• ,

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentence is correct

• what a cute puppy.

• What a cute puppy!

• What a cute puppy?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentence contains quotation mark

• Ali said, ‘I will be back by ten’

• Ali said I will be back by ten

• Ali said. I will be back by ten,