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Punctuation and

21 Capital Letters

Warm-up

Use punctuation and capitalisation, where necessary.

once upon a time there lived a fox and a stork they were neighbours and soon
became friends one day the fox invited the stork to his home for dinner he put
some soup in a very shallow dish the fox lapped up the soup easily but the stork
could only wet the end of her long bill in it

i am sorry said the fox the soup is not to your liking

pray do not apologise said the stork i hope you will return this visit and come
and dine with me soon

so saying she left the foxs home

soon the stork invited the fox for dinner at her place when the fox arrived she
served soup in a very long-necked jar with a narrow mouth the fox could not
insert his snout all he could manage to do was to lick the outer wall of the jar

i am sorry the soup is not to your liking said the stork and had the delicious soup

Punctuation marks and capital letters help us to organise our writing.
The main marks of punctuation are—the full stop, the question mark,
the exclamation mark, the comma, the hyphen, the semicolon, the colon
and the apostrophe.

Let us revise the use of capital letters and punctuation marks.

Capital letters

Capital letters are used
1. to begin a sentence. For example,

y Once upon a time, there was a magician.
y There is a big mango tree in the garden.

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