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Capital Letters

                    21                and Punctuation










                                                                                      Warm-up


                 Match the names of marks of punctuation with their definitions.


                   1.   full stop                     (a)   used after an interjection and at the end
                                                            of any exclamatory sentence


                   2.   question mark                 (b)   join two clauses of a compound
                                                            sentence when they are not joined by a
                                                            coordinating conjunction


                   3.   exclamation mark              (c)   used between the letters of a word




                   4.   comma                         (d)   indicate the end of an assertive sentence
                                                            and many imperative sentences


                   5.   semicolon                     (e)   to form the possessive of nouns and to
                                                            form certain contractions



                   6.   colon                         (f)   the mark used after a sentence that asks a
                                                            question



                   7.   apostrophe                    (g)   separate more than two independent
                                                            entries in a list


                   8.   hyphen                        (h)   mark out an even longer pause than that
                                                            expressed by the semicolon






                       Punctuation marks indicate pauses that are used to separate sentences or a
                       part of a sentence from another in order to give it a clearer meaning.




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