Punctuation
Part 1
I am sorry I love you.
A woman without
her man is nothing.
Importance of Punctuation
o Let’s eat Grandma!
o Let’s eat, Grandma!
o I like cooking my family and my pets.
o I like cooking, my family and my pets.
o Hang him, not free him.
o Hang him not, free him.
Types of sentences & final punctuation mark
+Assertive sentence/ statements- Full stop .
+Interrogative sentence- Question mark ?
+Imperative sentence- Full stop .
+Exclamatory sentence- Exclamation mark !
Full Stop or Period (.)
+used to mark the end of a sentence expressing a statement
+Terry Pratchett's latest book is not yet out in paperback.
+I asked her whether she could tell me the way to Brighton.
+Chinese, uniquely among the world's languages, is written in a logographic script.
+The British and the Irish drive on the left; all other Europeans drive on the right.
+A full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark is never preceded by a
white space.
+How well has Darwin's theory stood up ?
+A sentence-final punctuation mark is always written next to the last word of the
sentence.
American vs British English
+ American English- period
+United Kingdom abbreviated as ‘UK’
+United Stateswritten as ‘U.S.A.’
+American English- ‘Mr. Jones’
+British English- ‘Mr Jones’.
Question mark (?)
+Placed at the end of a sentence which is a direct question
+What is the capital of Wales?
+Does anyone have a pen I can borrow?
+Who told you that?
+In which country did coffee originate?
Question mark (?)
+If the question is a direct quotation, repeating the speaker's exact words, a
question mark is still used:
▫ "Have you a pen I can borrow?" she asked.
▫ "How many of you have pets at home?" inquired the teacher.
+But a question mark is not used in an indirect question, in which the
speaker's exact words are not repeated:
▫ She asked if I had a pen she could borrow.
▫ The teacher asked how many of us had pets at home.
+Here only a full stop is used, since the whole sentence is now a statement.
Exclamation mark (!)
+Known informally as a bang or a shriek
+used at the end of a sentence or a short phrase to express a very strong feeling
+What a lovely view you have here!
+That's fantastic!
+Johnny, don't touch that!
+Help!
+Good heavens!
+Exclamation marks are usually out of place in formal writing.
+! is also usual after an exclamation beginning with what or how:
+What fools people can be!
+How well Marshall bowled yesterday!
