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Dash (—)

A dash (—) is used to give additional, but essential information. For example:
You are the friend—the only friend—who offered to help me.
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Hyphen (-)

A hyphen (-) is used to join two or more words together. For example:
This rock-hard cake is absolutely impossible to eat.
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Apostrophe (’)

An apostrophe (’) is used:
 to show possession. For example:

Jack’s house (the house that belongs to Jack) is near the bus stop.
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 in contractions. For example:

I’m (I am); I’d have (I would have)
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 to show a plural form. For example:
the girls’ parents
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Inverted Commas or Quotation Marks (“ ’’)

Inverted commas or quotation marks (“ ’’) are used to enclose the text that denotes the
exact words of a speaker. For example:
Shakespeare said, “If music be the food of life, play on.”
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Practice Time

A. 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
Punctuation B. Rewrite the given sentences using apostrophes at suitable places.
6. In the farm we saw sheep cows goats and chickens
7. Harry when are you joining Professor Dutt in his project
8. I asked Gita what she would like to have

1. It is your book.
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3. They are on their way.
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2. It had stopped raining. ____________________________________________
4. He is coming with his children.
5. We are very fond of the little baby. ____________________________________________
6. They are waiting for us. ____________________________________________

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