S.D.A. School English A: Form 3

General instruction:

Complete the following exercise on binder sheet. (Remember to write down the page number and the book's instruction(s))

TEXT: English Alive! Book 3

UNIT: 6.13

PAGE #: 80 - 81

QUESTIONS:1-3

PUNCTUATION & CAPITALISATION (Review)

We use capital letters:

at the start of a sentence
for days, months, festivals; for example, "Sunday" "July", "Christmas"
for proper nouns and adjectives; for example, "Africa", "African", "West Indies","West Indian"
in titles like "Prime Minister", "Dr Chin","Mrs Morris"
or the main wordsin the titles ofbooks, poems, films, et cetera
for the first word in the complimentary close of a letter: "Yours sincerely"

We use full stops:

Mark the end of a sentence which is not a question or an exclamation; for example,

Rome is the capital of Italy.

Separate two main clauses (if you do not want to join them with a conjunction)

wrong: Guyana is much bigger than Trinidad it has fewer people. (This sentence error is called a "fused sentence")
right: Guyana is much bigger than Trinidad. It has fewer people.

Indicate an abbreviation

I will arrive between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m.

Ellipsis (Often you will see a sentence concluding with three dots. This indicates that only part of the sentence or text has been quoted or that it is being left up to the reader to complete the thought). For example,

The Lord's Prayer begins, "Our Father which art in Heaven...'"

courtesy of http://www.edufind.com/english-grammar/period-full-stop-or-point/

EXERCISE 10

Put in capital letters and full stops when necessary.

1. this year, christmas day is on a friday

2. uncle's plane leaves cheddi jagon airport in guyana on tuesday morning and should arrive at piarco airport in trinidad about an hour later we are going to meet his plane