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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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