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Week 12 Using Capital Letters

This document contains two reference pages, one on capitalization and one on punctuation marks. The capitalization page lists 10 situations where capital letters should be used, such as for the pronoun "I", days of the week, countries and nationalities, people's names and titles, trademarks and company names. The punctuation page defines common punctuation symbols such as periods, commas, question marks, hyphens, quotation marks, apostrophes and colons and provides examples of their use. It concludes with a short story illustrating how punctuation can change the meaning of a sentence.

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Week 12 Using Capital Letters

This document contains two reference pages, one on capitalization and one on punctuation marks. The capitalization page lists 10 situations where capital letters should be used, such as for the pronoun "I", days of the week, countries and nationalities, people's names and titles, trademarks and company names. The punctuation page defines common punctuation symbols such as periods, commas, question marks, hyphens, quotation marks, apostrophes and colons and provides examples of their use. It concludes with a short story illustrating how punctuation can change the meaning of a sentence.

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WEEK 12
Akun A2 5 des 2020
Man B1 8 DES 2020
Man B2 10 DES 2020
Man A3 16 Des 2020
Akun B1 16 des 2020
reference page: when to use capital letters
reference page: punctuation marks

REFERENCE PAGE: WHEN TO USE CAPITAL LETTERS

Use a capital letter…….


1. For “I”
a. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to Haramaya University. - 1

2. To begin a sentence
a. Thank you for your letter of 5 January. - 1

3. To begin a speech
a. The staff said: “Sorry - there is an important meeting - 1

4. For many abbreviations and acronyms - 2


a. UN, HIV/AIDS, VSO, ELIP

5. For days of the week, months of the year and holidays - 3


a. Monday, May, Easter

6. For countries, languages and nationalities, religions - 4


a. Ethiovia, English, American, Orthodox Christian, Muslim

7. For people’s names and titles - 2


a. Professor Smith, Dr. Wilson, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones

8. For trade-marks and names of companies and other organizations - 3


a. Coca-Cola, Microsoft Corporation, Toyota, the Red Cross

9. For places and monuments - 2


a. Addis Ababa, Harer, Lalibela

10. For titles of books, songs, films - 3


a. “Business English” Ghost Buster

REFERENCE PAGE: PUNCTUATION MARKS


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

Symbol Name Example


. full stop/period (U.S) The meeting is on Monday
morning.
, comma I speak English, Amharic and
Afan Oromo.
? question mark How are you?
! exclamation mark Help!
- hyphen The university has a very up-to-
date computer system.
- dash dash In each town – Harer and
Dire Dawa – there is a Ras Hotel.

/ oblique/slash Please press your browser’s


Refresh/Reload button
“ sign here.” quotation marks The staff said: “Please sign here.”
’ apostrophe The President’s Office
The Students’ Lounge
; semi-colon I don’t watch TV very often; I
prefer to read.
: colon Subject:

The Value of Punctuation……….!!!


An English teacher wrote these words on the whiteboard:
“Woman without her man is nothing.”
The teacher then asked the students to punctuate the sentence.

The men wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”


The women wrote: “Woman! Without her, man is nothing.”

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