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Punctuation includes symbols like periods, commas, question marks, etc. that are used to separate sentences and clarify meaning. An English teacher demonstrated the importance of punctuation by writing the phrase "woman without her man is nothing" on the board and having students punctuate it in different ways to change the meaning. The document provides an overview of common punctuation marks like periods, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, dashes, question marks and their purposes with examples.

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Punctuation Material

Punctuation includes symbols like periods, commas, question marks, etc. that are used to separate sentences and clarify meaning. An English teacher demonstrated the importance of punctuation by writing the phrase "woman without her man is nothing" on the board and having students punctuate it in different ways to change the meaning. The document provides an overview of common punctuation marks like periods, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, dashes, question marks and their purposes with examples.

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Punctuation

Punctuation is the system of symbols (. , ! - : etc) that we use to separate sentences and parts of
sentences, and to make their meaning clear. Each symbol is called a "punctuation mark".

The Value of Punctuation


An English teacher wrote
these words on the board:

woman without her man is


nothing

The teacher then asked the


students to punctuate the
words correctly. The men
wrote the top line. The
women wrote the bottom line.

Summary of Punctuation Marks


Click on the link for each punctuation mark to find out more.

Punctuation Mark Name Example

full stop or
period I like English.

I speak English, French and


comma Thai.

I don't often go swimming; I


semi-colon prefer to play tennis.
You have two choices: finish the
colon work today or lose the contract.

hyphen This is a rather out-of-date book.

In each town—London, Paris


and Rome—we stayed in youth
dash hostels.

question mark Where is Shangri-La?


exclamation
mark
exclamation "Help!" she cried. "I'm
point (AmE) drowning!"

slash, forward
slash or Please press your browser's
oblique Refresh/Reload button.

backslash C:\Users\Files\jse.doc

double
quotation
marks "I love you," she said.

single
quotation
marks 'I love you,' she said.

apostrophe This is John's car.


underline Have you read War and Peace?

underscore [email protected]

I went to Bangkok (my favourite


city) and stayed there for two
round brackets weeks.

The newspaper reported that the


hostages [most of them French]
square brackets had been released.

One happy customer wrote:


"This is the best program...that I
ellipsis mark have ever seen."

Taken from:

http://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation.htm

Grammar Exercise:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm

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