Grade 6 English: Punctuation Rules And Workbook

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Description

A worksheet that explains and provides practice in the rules and application of punctuation.

Sujets

• Littérature Sud-Africaine
• Littérature sud-africaine
• Collège
• Secondary education in France
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Informations

• Publié par: Netsport
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• Langue: English

Extrait

English 1st Language

Step 1:

Punctuation Workbook

Grade 6

Add only the full stops (.),exclamation marks (!) or questionmarks (?) to

the sentence or passage.
Full stop/Period: At the end of a sentence, usually the end ofstatements. Also


used at the end of abbreviations, e.g.Mrs.Smith

Exclamation mark: Use!to show strong emotion, e.g. surprise, fright, a


command, anger, excitement. Used at the end ofexclamationand

commandsentences.

Question mark: Use?when a question is asked. Lookout for these words at the

beginning of a sentence:May, Can, Will, Is, Was, Were, Are, Am, Why, What,

How, When, Where, Does, Do, At what« 8VHG DW WKH Hnd of aquestion.



Step 2: Addthe necessary capital letters.

Beginning of a sentence and after a period/full stop- every sentence starts with a capital

letter.

Proper Nouns³ special names of people, places, books, magazines, towns, countries, days

of the week, months, films, planets, brands, company names, races, nationalities, religions,

special occasions, street names etc.³always start with a capital letter.

5HODWLYH·V IDPLO\ QDPHV³when used without their proper name, e.g.´We visited

Grandmother DW WKH KRWHOµ EXW ´:H YLVLWHGgrandmotherGwenDW WKH KRWHOµ

Titles and abbreviations of Titles-´0LVWHU 6PLWK LV RXU 6FLHQFH WHDFKHUµ RU ´0U 6PLWK LV RXU

6FLHQFH WHDFKHUµ

Exception:

cold.

Occupations are not capitalised- We went todoctor Jameswhen I had a

Remember: Book titles/Film titles³all important words and the first word start with a capital

letter, e.g.The Boy in the DressorThe Happy Cricket and the Giant Bugs.

Do not capitalize the following;

animals, foods, heavenly bodies (beside the planets³Earth, Jupiter, Mars), plants,

vegetables, fruit and seasons,unlessit contains aproper nounorproper adjective, e.g.

Bengal tiger, Jerusalem artichoke, German shepherd.

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