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Title: All about punctuation


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All about punctuation
  • Matthew,
  • Raquel
  • Bear
  • Edwin
  • Darriell

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Table of Contents
  • Quotation marks
  • Apostrophes
  • End marks
  • Commas

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Quotation marks
  • You use quotation marks to show someone is
    speaking. You use quotation marks before and
  • after what the person says.
  • Example What are quotation marks? said Anna.


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Apostrophes
  • Apostrophes can be used in different kinds
  • of words like contractions. They are also
  • used for showing possession of a noun or
  • both.
  • For example
  • Thats the guy who was at the mall yesterday?
  • That is Jordans toy.
  • Thats Jordans toy.


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End marks
  • You use end marks at the end of a sentence.
    There are different ending marks. You use
    different ending marks for different sentences.
  • Example
  • imperative(command)Go to your room.
  • interrogative(question) Do you play baseball?
  • declarative(statement)I went to Sam house.
  • Exclamatory(exclamation) I got an A!!
  • .,!,and?s Are different types of end marks.




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Commas
  • You can use commas between cities and states,
    dates and direct address in a greeting closing
    of a letter and a sentence of commas and to
    separate words and to separate words in a series.
  • For a example
  • My friends are Matthew,Megan, and Anna Carr.
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