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Read the following sentences.

What a pleasant surprise!
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Alas! He could not qualify the interview.
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Comma (,)

A comma is used to express the shortest pause.

It is used to separate words in a series, when only the last two words are connected
by and.

Read the following sentences.

There are bananas, guavas, grapes and oranges in the basket.
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Neeta is intelligent, beau� ful, sincere and honest.
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Capital letters

Capital le� ers are used in the following ways.

At the beginning of every new sentence.

She is a good dancer.
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Proper nouns always begin with capital le� ers.

Neha went to New Delhi to see the India Gate.
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The pronoun I is always wri� en in capital le� er.

Sanjay and I go for a walk every day.
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Practice Time

Put the punctua� on marks wherever necessary and rewrite the following sentences.

1. if you work hard you will pass

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Punctuation 3. did you write a le� er to your parents

2. madhu and priya are friends
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4. oh no the doctor failed to save the life of the pa� ent

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5. sheetal went to the market and bought a book a pencil a sharpener and a geometry box

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