Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
1. Full Stop
3.
When reading, you must pause for a short while after a comma.
Question Mark
4. Exclamation Mark
Example:
5. Apostrophe
Example : Kim Lings house is on top of a hill- The house belongs to Kim Ling.
The apostrophe is placed after the plural form of a regular noun to indicate a
plural subject.
Showing omission
Hell go = He will go
couldve = could have (Not could of!)
Forming plurals
Apostrophes are used to form plurals of letters that appear in lowercase. For example:
Mind your ps and qs
6. Capital letters
The postman delivers letters to our homes.
The thief stole Helmis motorcycle, which was parked outside the post office.
The bold and larger letters in the sentences above are capital letters. Capital letters are
used for :
The pronoun I
Examples: I am a secondary school student
2. She went to the grocery shop to buy some flour sugar margarine eggs and milk.
3. The old man bent down picked up the photo frame dusted it and looked at the
picture with tears in his eyes.
5. Walk up the stairs turn right and walk until the end of the corridor.
6. The children knocked down a few pots of plants broke off some branches and
stepped on a few rows of flowerbeds.
7. To get good results you must work harder said the teacher to David.
Exercise 3: Pick out the words in the sentences below to form contractions. Underline
them and rewrite the sentences using contractions in the space given.
1. She is working in a restaurant.
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Exercise 5: Punctuate the sentences using the exclamation mark (!) where necessary.
Remember to use a capital letter to begin the new word.
1. Help someone has snatched y handbag.