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B Punctuation

Punctuation Usage Example
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Capital ✓ First letter of a sentence
letters ✓ Proper nouns • My mother and I will be seeing Dr. Ravi, a
A – Z ✓ Pronoun ‘I’ surgeon in University Hospital.
(people, places)
Full stop . ✓ At the end of a sentence • My uncle just underwent a heart surgery.

Comma ✓ Marks a short pause • Jessie brought oranges, apples and grapes
within a sentence for her sister in hospital.

Question • How far is the clinic from here?
mark ✓ Ends a question

Exclamation • Wow! The hearing aid works great for my
mark ! ✓ Shows strong feelings grandfather.

TASK 3 Punctuate the sentences correctly.
1. he was sent to the icu because of his irregular heartbeat
2. why does he have to be put on a life-support system
3. scientists from the university of leeds recommend that we take fruits on an
empty stomach
4. oh no the clinic has run out of vaccines again

TASK 4 Punctuate the text below.

jennifer ackerman wrote a book about the common cold she
experimented with a virus and was down with a bad cold for ten days
the following is information related to a cold

a lack of sleep and stress can make you catch cold easily take naps
b cold symptoms are caused by your body’s reaction to a cold virus

c when you shake hands with somebody who is having a cold wash
your hands

d our hands transmit cold viruses easily so keep your hands off
your face

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