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Warm-up

Punctuate the following paragraph carefully and rewrite it.
i am a banker and these days my life is very stressful i set my alarm for 630 am and I leave

the house in thirty minutes the first thing I do every day is to look at my calendar and my
to do list i have a calendar on my phone but I also have a paper calendar in case my phone
battery drains i remain busy at work and sometimes I do not get home until 1000 pm.

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Punctuation

In a sentence, punctuation is used to make sense and aid the clarity of written language.
Punctuation marks are used in written English.

Read the paragraph given below.

When young hiawatha saw the shadows on the moon, he was frightened he asked his grandmother
nokomis what is that she told him that it was the shadow of the great warrior swangetaha

Now, read the same paragraph with the punctuation marks.

When young Hiawatha saw the shadows on the Moon, he was frightened. He asked his grandmother,
Nokomis, “What is that?” She told him that it was the shadow of the great warrior Swangetaha.

Punctuation Marks

Some commonly used punctuation marks are given below.
• Full Stop (.) • Comma (,) • Semicolon (;)

• Colon (:) • Question Mark (?) • Exclamation Mark (!)
• Dash (—) • Hyphen (-) • Apostrophe (’)

• Inverted Commas or Quotation Marks (“ ’’)

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