Grade 4 English: Punctuation Workbook

Netsport

Description

A workbook that provides the rules of punctuation and provides practice in applying the rules.

Sujets

• Préscolaire
• Primaire
• École maternelle
• Littérature sud-africaine
• Littérature Sud-Africaine

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 4

Add onlythefullstops(.),exclamationmarks(!)orquestionmarks (?) 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… Used at the end of aquestion. Step 2:the necessary capital letters. Add Beginning of a sentence and after a period/full stop- every sentence starts with a capital letter.

Proper Nouns—special namesof people, places, books, magazines, towns, countries, days

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

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

Relative’s family names—when used without their proper name, e.g.“We visited

Grandmotherat the hotel”, but “We visitedgrandmotherGwenat the hotel”.

Titles and abbreviations of Titles-“Mister Smith is our Science teacher.” or“Mr. Smith is our

Science teacher.”

Exception:

cold.

Occupations are not capitalised- We went todoctorJameswhen I had a

Remember: Book titles/Film titles—all 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 planets—Earth, Jupiter, Mars), plants,

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

Bengal tiger, Jerusalem artichoke, German shepherd.

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