The document lists several punctuation marks:
1. Period, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, quotation mark, colon, and semicolon.
2. It then provides examples and explanations of the common uses of each punctuation mark, such as using a period at the end of a sentence, using commas to separate parts of a sentence, and using quotation marks to indicate direct speech.
3. Ellipses are described as being used to show omitted words in dialogue or to indicate that more could be said on a topic.
2. Kind of punctuation
. is a period or full stop.
, is a comma.
? is a question mark or query.
! is an exclamation mark.
' is an apostrophe.
" is a quotation mark.
: is a colon.
; is a semicolon.
... is an ellipsis.
5. A period is used to end sentence. It shows
when an idea is finished. a
example
I’m a student.
Budi plays football.
6. A period can show numbers that are
smaller than one. With money,
For example: "Elizabeth bought a soda for $1.25."
means that Elizabeth paid one dollar and twenty-five
cents for her drink.
7. A period is used to show that a word has
been made shorter. is called an
abbreviation.
For example:
The words doctor, mister, and mistress
are often made shorter when used with a name. "Dr.
Smith" and "Mr. Banerjee" and "Mrs. Yang"
18. An exclamation mark looks like
this: !
roan exclamation mark is used write about a
strong emotion, or to write the words a
person shouted. It can be used to make a
statement stnger or more forceful
19. For the example
"What a bad cat Mimi has!"
"Hallie, come here!"
"You did a good job!"
An exclamation mark can be used with a question
mark, to make a question more forceful.
For example:
“ 'What did you do that for?!' she said angrily."
21. '
An apostrophe looks like this:
An apostrophe has two main uses.
ownership
contraction
22. Ownership
An apostrophe can be used to show that something belongs to
something else.
If there is only one thing, the letter s is used after an apostrophe
.
For example:
"It was the boy's dog.“
Sometimes the letter s is not used after an apostrophe to show
ownership. if there is more than one thing and the word already
ends with s.
For example:
"Father put away the girls' clothes" means that Father had to
tidy up for several girls.
"Father put away the girl's clothes" means that Father tidied up
for only one girl.
23. contraction
An apostrophe can be used to put two
small words together.
For example:
Cannot can be made into the word
can't.
It is can be made into the word it's,
for example, "It's a nice day today."
25. Quotation marks
Quotation marks (also
called quote marks or
quotes for short) are used
around the words that people
have said, or direct speech.
26. They are used in pairs.
For example:
"Hallie said, 'Mimi, please wash the
dishes."
"'Today,' said our teacher, 'is the first day
of the rest of your lives.'"
In these cases, quotation marks go after
the commas and periods, not before.
27. direct speech, for example around Quotation
marks are also used in some other cases
besides the name of a song. In these
cases, the commas can come after the quote
marks.
Example:
"After recording "Beat It",
Michael Jackson went on to
record several more hits."
29. Colons can be used at the
beginning of a list.
"This is a list of animals: birds,
cats, insects, pigs, and sheep.".
Colons can be used to replace a semicolon in
between two parts of a sentence, but this is not
common today.
31. A semicolon is used to connect two
sentences, in one sentence, where a
comma could also be used.
For example:
I could tell that it was getting late; it was
growing darker by the second.
I could tell that it was getting late because
it was growing darker by the second.
33. It is used to show where words have been missed out
when writing what a person said. It can also be used to
show that there is more to be said but the person stopped
at that point.
For example:
... one day all Americans will live
peacefully throughout the world
... they will be at peace with all
other world inhabitants ...
So much more could be said ...