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What is an end mark? An end mark is also known as punctuation, and comes at the end of a sentence. It lets you know when to stop.
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First letter of a sentence. He is a boy.
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Days Festivals Abbreviations Months
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Capital letters A capital letter is normally used in writing: For the first letter of the first word at the beginning of a sentence KSouth Africa Johannesburg C For the first letter of proper nouns (Kevin), countries (South Africa), cities (Johannesburg), and titles (the Champion).
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Capital letters TFebruary D For the first letter of the names of days (Tuesday), months (February), festivals (Dubai). K For the first letter of houses, ships, streets, newspapers, books, play-titles (King Street). I For the word I.
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Full Stop At the end of every complete sentence. Samy is a good cooker. Abbrev iations R C T I M C O D
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Full stops. A full stop is used at the end of a sentence, unless the sentence calls for a question mark (?) or an exclamation mark (!). Example, Joyce went to the shop.
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Use a comma to separate independent clause (sentences) in a compound sentence. I like English, but it is difficult.
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Continue Use commas to separate words, phrases, and clauses when there are three or more in a series. For instance, Sanny can run, jump, and skip.
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When the date identifies the day of the week, the date is set off with a comma. See the example below: On Thursday, August 25, school resumes.
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Use Comma to set off nouns of direct. For example: “Sarah, I want you to know that Doha is a bad person.” Address. Use a comma to set off a year when it is with a month and date. - John was born June 25, 1954, in Boston, U.S.A.
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Use commas when writing full addresses in sentence form. I live at 45 London St. Use commas to set off introductory phrases that come at the beginning of a sentence. Feeling anxious, George slowly stepped on the stage.
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Commas Continue ◦ That boy, who is standing by the door is my brother.
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Use a comma to set off short quoted sentences from the rest of the sentence. Example: Hamlet said, “To be or not to be. That is the question.”
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Exclamation To show emotions Hurrah ! We won. To emphasis What a beautiful flower ! For blessings May God bless you !
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Exclamation marks An exclamation mark is used after expressions of surprise, motion, fear and delight: !,!, For instance,Oh!,Ah!,Look!, and ! Hurrah!
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Question marks A question mark is usually placed at the end of a question. ? What are you doing? But a question mark is not used in: indirect speech. Ex.I asked them what they were doing.
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Apostrophes ‘ An apostrophe is a mark (‘ ) used to indicate: The possessive case. The omission of a letter or letters. If the word does not end in s and is singular, add ‘s.
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Apostrophes Examples, The book of the boy – the boy’s book. The book of the children – the children’s books. In omission ( can’t – didn’t ) If the word ends in s and is singular, add ‘s: The book of Charles – Charles’s book
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Quotation marks (inverted commas) Words quoted are put into quotation marks. The boy said, “He has the book”. Note the comma before the quotation mark and that since the words inside the marks form a sentence, the first letter is a capital letter
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Direct speech Name of Books, Poems, movies
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Colon A colon means "Use a colon to introduce a series of items. Do not capitalize the first item after the colon (unless it's a proper noun). Examples: 1) I want the following items: butter, sugar, and flour. 2) I need an assistant who can do the following: input data, write reports, and complete tax forms.
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Avoid using a colon before a list when it directly follows a verb or preposition. Incorrect: I want: butter, sugar, and flour. Correct: I want the following: butter, sugar, and flour. OR I want butter, sugar, and flour.
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Hyphen - The sign (-) used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning or that they are linked in the grammar of a sentence. For instance, good-hearted.
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Hyphen (cont.) ◦ Hyphenate all compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine. ◦ Examples: thirty-two children one thousand two hundred twenty-one dollars
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Parenthesis ( rounded brackets) ◦ Use parentheses to enclose information that clarifies or is used as an aside. ◦ Example: ◦ He finally answered (after taking five minutes to think) that he did not understand the question.
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