PUNCTUATION MARKS
Punctuation marks on a page are similar to signs on a road. They guide you and direct you.
1. A period ( . ) ends a declarative or imperative sentence.
- I live in Pasadena.
- They don’t live in Pasadena.
- Listen to me. Don’t drink and drive.
- Please come here. Eat your vegetables.
- Do you live in Pasadena?
- Don’t you like chocolate ice cream?
- Help!
- Stop!
- Don’t call me again!
- I like coffee, soda, milk, and tea.
- Sara, Maria, Robert and Steven will eat lunch.
- Mary is at home; Bob is at school.
- Give me a hamburger, with onions and lettuce; a coke, with a straw; and fries, with ketchup.
- Bring these things with you: a book, a pencil, and a dictionary.
- I’ll have a hot dog with mustard – no, make that ketchup.
- co-ordinate re-elect pray-er
- A hyphen also separates syllables when it’s necessary to continue a word on the follow-ing line.
- John (my brother) is coming to the party.
- John – my brother – is coming to the party.
- “To be or not...the question.” (“To be or not to be. That is the question.”)
- Maria said, “Where are the keys?”
- isn’t = is not
- can’t = cannot
- don’t = do not
- I’ll = I will
- I’m = I am
- He’s sick. = He is sick.
- Bob’s rich. = Bob is rich.
- What’s new? = What is new?
- They’ve worked. = They have worked.
- ’99 = 1999
- This is Sara’s book. (Don’t say: This is the book of Sara.)
- Capitalize the first word in a sentence and finish the sentence with a punctuation mark.
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