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One day, as a teacher walked into her classroom, she heard Tommy Andrews
whisper to the boy next to him:
Punctuation can often say quite a lot.
"Here is the teacher. I'll bet the silly cow is going to talk about putting in commas."
The teacher didn't say anything but she began to talk about putting in commas, and explained how important they could be. To show what she meant, she wrote the sentence on the blackboard:
The class laughed and Tommy Andrews looked very red.
"Tommy Andrews says the teacher is a silly cow."
She put two commas into the sentence, and it now read: "Tommy Andrews, says the teacher, is a silly cow."
"Now," said the teacher, "I'll show how important commas are."
Match the picture with the term.
Do you know the names of the English punctuation marks ?
Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted comma
Colon Hyphen
Semi-colon Full stop
Brackets Dash.
,Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted comma
Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash
Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted comma
Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash
-
Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted comma
Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash
___
Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted comma
Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash
:
Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted comma
Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash
;
Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted comma
Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash
!
Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted comma
Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash
?
Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted commas
Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash
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Exclamation mark Comma
Question mark Inverted comma
Colon Full stop Semi-colon Hyphen Brackets Dash
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