MID-TERM English PROJECT BEING SUBMITTED BY: WORGU PRECIOUS YEAR 10A

Punctuation marks uses. Capital letter. The first letter of a sentence. For peoples name and titles. For countries, nationalities, languages, places, religions. For organizations trademarks. For days, months. For titles of books, films, etc. For most abbreviations. For the personal pronoun I

examples. Hydrogen is a chemical element. Jonathan came to my house. Nigeria is a blessed country. I have a BlackBerry Bold. My birthday is in June. Twilight is one of the best selling films. I lived in the USA. I am a boy.

Full stop(UK) Period(US)

At the end of a sentence. After some abbreviations. To separate parts of an e-mail or website address. As a decimal point in numbers. Between items in a list. To show a pause in a long sentence. In large numbers, to separate a group of numbers. At the end of a sentence to express shock or surprise. To emphasize what you have said. To indicate a loud sound. After a direct question. After a question tag. For possessives (showing that something belongs to someone) For contractions. To introduce a list. To introduce writing that follows.

Comma

Wind and rain cause erosion. Mrs. James came around today. My email is allworgu@yahoo.co.uk. The number is 26.7 correct to a decimal place. You will need paper, pens, a ruler and a calculator. We didnt win the game, but we played well. He gained 2,555,324 points in the game. I cant believe it! I want this mess tidied up- fast! Ouch! I hit my head. How many times did I call you? He came around, didnt he? This is Pauls bike. She cant come today. You need the following: paint, brushes, water, cloths. Read the following poem by Lancer:

Exclamation mark

Question mark. Apostrophe.

Colon

semicolon

Hyphen

Dash.

Quotation/ quote marks also inverted commas. Ellipsis (...)

Brackets or parentheses(() or [])

Slash

We repeated the experiment three times; the results were always the same. You can do the following To separate items on a list combinations of subjects: maths, were the items are long, or physics and music; maths, where commas have been English and geography; English, already used. geography and biology. Click on the drop-down menu to In some compound words. the items. The experiment created a blueTo join two words together. green colour. Sometimes for adding prefixes. He explained pro-democracy to us. Get the bookthe one with the To separate parts of a blue coverand give it to John. sentence. Near the end of a sentence as Make sure you read the, instructions, the questions, the a short way of repeating the texteverything. most important part of what you have said. Be careful not tooh, too late! To show that the speech has he said as the vase crashed to been interrupted. the floor. Im tired, she said. To show that words are spoken. To show someones thoughts. I must remember to phone mum, he thought. To show a word that is new or He called his invention the robocat. unusual. We shall fight them on the To show that some material has been omitted from a direct beaches... We shall never surrender. quotation. The winner is... To indicate suspense... Watch this space... To show that a sentence has been left unfinished because it has simply trailed off. You will need suitable clothing To add extra information but (waterproof coat, strong shoes) keep it separate from the rest and a picnic lunch. of the sentence. These are my favourite foods: After numbers or letters in a 1) Cheese list. 2) Pizza 3) Tomatoes To indicate the end of a line of Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough,/ A flash of wine, a poetry. book of verseand and thou. In French, the /e/ is pronounced To set off phonemic as /A/. transcriptions. To separate paired items (use Pass/fail. To separate two parts of a sentence.

sparingly). ampersand Often used when addressing a couple in writing. Used to show a registered name like the name of a company. Used for book and movie titles. Used in e-mails. It is used in various programming languages. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, so nice of you to come along, said the mayor. I work at Samson & Sons ltd.

At sign Asterisk

The name of the film is Harry &Tonto. Endale2@ymail.com is my email address. Array[@88] now refers to an array starting at index 88.

She studied *Chromatography in Used to show emphasis on a the university. particular thing. Wake Her up./* wake up her. Used to show that a word or phrase is grammatically wrong.