Lesson 1 Experiment

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Punctuation in English © GFH Schmittinger 2012

Capital Letters

1. the first letter in a sentence The man walked home.
2. all names (people, places, countries, days, months) Peter, Stuttgart, Germany, Monday, March
3. abbreviations and acronyms SMS, VAT (all letters)
4. titles of books, films etc. Winnetou, The Golden Goblet
5. the personal pronoun I Do you know who I am?
   Full Stop (.)
6. at the end of a sentence I am clever.
7. usually at the end of an abbreviation Mr. Jones, Main St.
   Comma (,)
8. to separate clauses After I had eaten, I went home.
9. between separate items in a list Buy the following: apples, pears, bananas
10. in question tags You know him, don’t you?
11. before or after “she said” in conversations “I love it, ” she said.
12. in decimal fractions 55,7 litres of petrol
    Question Mark (?)
    At the end of a direct question. How did you do that?
    Exclamation Mark (!)
    At the end of a sentence to show surprise, shock I did it!
    At the end of a command. Get out!
    Hyphen (-)
13. to join words and some prefixes to form compound words air-conditioner, part-time
14. when a word is divided at the end of a sentence I went to the cine-ma
15. in some numbers twenty-seven, eighty-nine
    Colon (:)
    to introduce a list of items Buy the following: apples, pears, bananas
    Semicolon (;)
    to separate parts of a sentence when there is no conjunction We had a great time; then everyone went home.
    Apostrophe (‘)
16. for missing letters in contractions let’s go (let us go), don’t do that (do not)
17. to indicate possession / ownership John’s girlfriend, Justin’s song
    Quotation marks (“)
18. to show words someone has spoken She said:”Well done!”
19. to emphasise a slang expression Howdy?” : How do you do?
    Brackets ()
20. for cross reference That is a fact (See chapter 9).
21. to supply more information / an extra thought Peter (that old rascal) did it again.