Punctuation

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  • Created on: 13-03-22 15:59
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  • Punctuation
    • Capital Letters
      • Start a sentence
      • Proper nouns
      • Personal  pronoun 'I'
    • Full stop
      • End of a sentence
      • End of statements
      • End of most commands
    • Exclamation mark
      • End a sentence that is an exclamation
        • Only use one exclamation at a time
    • Comma
      • Separate items in a list
      • Clarify the meaning of a sentence
      • After a fronted adverbial
    • Inverted commas
      • Direct speech
      • To show that words are being quoted
      • Show that a word is being used ironically
      • Referring to the title of a book or film
    • Apostrophe
      • Omission of letters
      • To show possession
    • Colon
      • Separates two independent clauses
        • When the second clause  explains or illustrates
    • Parenthesis
      • Extra information
      • Pair of commas
        • Pair of brackets
          • Pair of dashes
    • Semi-colon
      • Separate two closely related independent clauses
  • Question Mark
    • End a sentence that is a direct question
    • Punctuation
      • Capital Letters
        • Start a sentence
        • Proper nouns
        • Personal  pronoun 'I'
      • Full stop
        • End of a sentence
        • End of statements
        • End of most commands
      • Exclamation mark
        • End a sentence that is an exclamation
          • Only use one exclamation at a time
      • Comma
        • Separate items in a list
        • Clarify the meaning of a sentence
        • After a fronted adverbial
      • Inverted commas
        • Direct speech
        • To show that words are being quoted
        • Show that a word is being used ironically
        • Referring to the title of a book or film
      • Apostrophe
        • Omission of letters
        • To show possession
      • Colon
        • Separates two independent clauses
          • When the second clause  explains or illustrates
      • Parenthesis
        • Extra information
        • Pair of commas
          • Pair of brackets
            • Pair of dashes
      • Semi-colon
        • Separate two closely related independent clauses
  • Hyphen
    • To avoid ambiguity by joining two words together

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