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¾ at the end of a question tag.

• Both of you will be here by 7, won’t you?

Exclamation Mark (!)
An exclamation mark (!) is used to express surprise, amazement or a strong emotion.

• Ouch! • How terrible! • Unbelievable!

Dash (—)
A dash (—) is used to give additional, but essential information.

• You are the friend—the only friend—who offered to help me.

Hyphen (-)
A hyphen (-) is used to join two or more words together.

• This rock-hard cake is absolutely impossible to eat.

Apostrophe (’)
An apostrophe (’) is used:

¾ to show possession.
• Jack’s house (the house that belongs to Jack) is near the bus stop.

¾ in contractions.

• I’m (I am); I’d have (I would have)
¾ to show a plural form. For example:

• the girls’ parents

Inverted Commas or Quotation Marks (“ ’’)
Inverted commas or quotation marks (“ ’’) are used to enclose the text that denotes the exact
words of a speaker.

• Shakespeare said, “If music be the food of life, play on.”

Test Yourself

I. Insert commas, full stops, and question marks at suitable places in these sentences.

1. Dr Banerjee our neighbour is a well-known scientist
2. Tagore the Nobel Laureate was a person of immense knowledge

3. The Iliad a poem written by Homer tells us about the Trojan War
4. Though he normally stammers on stage today he was fluent and expressive
5. The children were busy jumping laughing and playing with each other

6. On the farm we saw sheep cows goats and chickens

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