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Let us now understand the use of capital letters and the different marks of
punctuation.

We use capital letters

1. to begin a sentence. For example,

y The dog ran after the cat.

2. for proper nouns. For example,

y The dog is called Spot.

y We are meeting Shilpi on Sunday.

y Uncle Tom took us to Disneyland.

y The festival of Diwali falls in the month of October this year.

3. for the pronoun I. For example,

y Sneha and I went to the park.
We use a full stop

1. at the end of a statement or a command. Note
For example, We do not use a full stop

y I am going to school. after Mr, Mrs and Dr, or after
short forms of countries and
2. after short forms of words. television stations such as the

y I will meet you between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. UK, the USA, CNN and ESPN.

We use a question mark

1. at the end of a question. For example,

y Do you know Tom?

We use an exclamation mark

1. at the end of a sentence that expresses some strong feeling. For example,

y What a pretty girl!

Full stops, question marks and exclamation marks come at the end of a sentence,
so they are also known as end punctuation marks.

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