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17 17 Punctuation

Warm up
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Rewrite these sentences using punctuation marks and capital letters.
1. which is your favourite colour

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2. mr apj abdul kalam was a renowned scientist
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3. have you got the groceries
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4. what a tasty dish it is
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5. my favourite subject is english

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6. hurrah we have won the match

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The main of punctuation marks sare given below.

1. full stop (.) 2. comma (,)

3. semicolon (;) 4. question mark (?)
5. exclamation mark (!) 6. inverted commas (“ ”)

7. apostrophe (’)

Full stop (.)

The full stop represents the long pause. It is used:

to mark the end of an assertive or imperative sentence.
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