On punctuation

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One day, as a teacher walked into her classroom, she heard Tommy Andrews

whisper to the boy next to him:

Punctuation can often say quite a lot.

"Here is the teacher. I'll bet the silly cow is going to talk about putting in commas."

The teacher didn't say anything but she began to talk about putting in commas, and explained how important they could be. To show what she meant, she wrote the sentence on the blackboard:

The class laughed and Tommy Andrews looked very red.

"Tommy Andrews says the teacher is a silly cow."

She put two commas into the sentence, and it now read: "Tommy Andrews, says the teacher, is a silly cow."

"Now," said the teacher, "I'll show how important commas are."

Match the picture with the term.

Do you know the names of the English punctuation marks ?

Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted comma

Colon Hyphen

Semi-colon Full stop

Brackets Dash.

,Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted comma

Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash

Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted comma

Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash

-

Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted comma

Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash

___

Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted comma

Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash

:

Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted comma

Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash

;

Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted comma

Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash

!

Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted comma

Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash

?

Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted commas

Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash

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Exclamation mark Comma

Question mark Inverted comma

Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash

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