Saturday, December 26, 2015

Punctuation

 

-Full Stop:[.]: 


We put it at the end of the sentence . For example :

i am sick .

-Question Mark[?] :


 Come after a direct question .for example :  

where do you live?


-Exclamation Mark[!] : 


Come at the end of the sentence to 

express surprise or chock .for example : i can not believe this !

-Comma[,] :


 used between items being on a list or to show a

pause in a long sentence or in adding extra information . For

Example: i need a paper, a black pen , a pencil and a book. They

did not want to go before I'd arrived , but i was tow hours late.

Jane , our cousin , is sick.

-Apostrophe['] : 


Used for missing letters or possessives .for example : 

don't , it's . George's car .

-Quotation Mark [""/<>/()/{}] : 


Also called inverted commas. To show that words are spoken or

to show that someone else originally wrote these words. For

example : she said : " let's go shopping". 


-Colon [:] : 


Used to introduce a list or a quotation in a sentence . 

For example : you will need these things : peas , butter, sugar , 

milk and eggs.

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