Punctuation in Writing

What are we learning today?

You will learn how to use capital letters and punctuation marks in an email and a blog.

Explanation

• Use capital letters for names, days and months: Liam, Saturday, April.
• Use a comma after a greeting, in a list and after a phrase at the start: "After the ice rink, we had fun."
• Use an apostrophe in short forms: I'm, I've, it's.
• End a question with a question mark. Use an exclamation mark for strong feeling.
• Use a hyphen in words like Olympic-size.
• Read each sentence aloud to check it.

Examples

1. Hi Annie,
2. I've never seen anything like it.
3. Would you like to bring some food?

Remember!

• Do not use a comma instead of a full stop between two sentences.
• Write "it's" for "it is".

Check yourself

1. Add a comma: "After the ice rink we went home."
2. Which mark ends a question?