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17 17 Punctuation
Warm-up
Put appropriate punctuation marks in the following sentences.
1. Long ago in a distant country there lived a beautiful princess
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2. When I was a child I could watch TV whenever I wanted to
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3. I don’t like this one bit said Ria
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4. Looking straight at her he said I cant help you
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When we speak, our facial expressions, the tone of our voice, the stress that we put on words,
and syllables, all add up to the meaning of words that we speak. While writing, we need to use
punctuation marks to indicate the same.
Punctuation marks tell readers where sentences begin and end.
Read the paragraph given below.
alice meets the white rabbit again who mistakes her for a servant and sends her off to fetch his
things while in the white rabbit’s house alice drinks an unmarked bottle of liquid and grows to the
size of the room the white rabbit returns to his house fuming at the now giant alice but she swats
him and his servants away with her giant hand the animals outside try to get her out of the house
by throwing rocks at her which transform into cakes when they land in the house alice eats one of
the cakes which causes her to shrink to a small size
Now, read aloud the same punctuated paragraph.
Alice meets the White Rabbit again, who mistakes her for a servant and sends her off to fetch his
things. While in the White Rabbit’s house, Alice drinks an unmarked bottle of liquid and grows to
the size of the room. The White Rabbit returns to his house, fuming at the now-giant Alice, but she
swats him and his servants away with her giant hand. The animals outside try to get her out of the
house by throwing rocks at her, which transform into cakes when they land in the house. Alice eats
one of the cakes, which causes her to shrink to a small size.
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