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Learning Objective: Punctuation! Understand how it
can change meaning and why it is important.
These
sentences
have
different
meanings.
How?
The girls... like spaghetti
The girls like spaghetti.
King George walked and talked an hour after his
head was cut off.
King George walked and talked; an hour after, his
head was cut off.
Punctuation Problem
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind,
thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior.
You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings
whatsoever when we’re apart. I can be forever happy–will you let me be
yours? Gloria
DEAR JOHN LETTER TWO:
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind,
thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior.
You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings
whatsoever. When we’re apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?
Yours, Gloria
Full Stops and Capital letters
A
.
Names, places and beginning
of sentences
The end of an idea or a part of
a sentence
Re-write the following
many people enjoy visiting devon in the
south of england they can see beautiful
beaches and pretty towns golfers can
play on courses by the sea and moor
swimmers and fishermen can enjoy the
coast a favourite place for sightseers are
old mansions and lovely gardens
What are the different meanings?
A panda eats, shoots, and
leaves
A panda eats shoots and leaves
What punctuation mark
makes a difference?
A Comma
1. A list.
2. To separate a main
clause from a
subordinate clause.
•It was dark, dismal
and cold
•While some of us
believe in Education,
not everyone agrees.
Running quickly Miss Newton fell down a
rabbit hole
It was dark cold and miserable in the rabbit
hole
As she was so small she was able to crawl
along the rabbit hole quite well
She met three rabbits called James Macca and
Steve.
The rabbits took Miss Newton to tea where
she met all the other rabbits. They were all
grumpy tired and lazy.
Write
three
more
sentences
using
commas.
Run on Sentences
Waterloo Road moved to Scotland where
it was really cold and dark in the winter
although it was good because Finn Sharky
got away from the gang warfare which he
had been involved in because his girlfriend
had dumped him and he didn’t handle it
very well so he got really bad
Why is it used?
•
To separate two parts of a sentence when
they are closely related
•
To separate items in a list when the items
are long phrases
Where should the semi-colons be?
• Elephants live in hot countries, they cool off
by bathing.
• English at St James’ is a real success our
lessons are really top quality!
To separate two parts of a sentence when they
are closely related
• •Elephants
Elephantslive
liveininhot
hotcountries;
countries;they
theycool
cooloff
off
bybybathing.
bathing.
• •English
EnglishatatStStJames’
James’School
Schoolisisa areal
realsuccess;
success;
our
ourlessons
lessonsare
aretop
topquality!
quality!
What is a colon?
• A part of your stomach
• A punctuation mark that looks like this
:
What are its uses?
•
•
To introduce a quotation or list
To add emphasis to a point by putting it on
its own
Where would we put the colons?
• In scene 5, Romeo states
“Juliet, I love your hat”
• There are many ways to make money sell your
kidney, rob a bank, invent something amazing
etc.
To introduce a quotation or list
• In scene 5, Romeo states:
“Juliet: I love your hat”
• There are many ways to make money: sell
your kidney, rob a bank, invent something
amazing etc.
Punctuate these sentences with colons, commas
and semi colons.
If anything demonstrates the fact that Miss Newton is
getting old it is her taste in music. Turn on Miss
Newton’s IPOD and you will see the following Oasis the
Verve and the Foo Fighters. Poor Miss Newton thinks
she is really cool. She knows who the Wanted and Tinie
Tempah is she even likes the new song by DJ Fresh.
However lets face it when she drives home she sings
very loudly to the Take That album. And if you said
“Dub step” to her, she’d give you a very blank look.
Punctuate these sentences with colons, commas
and semi colons.
If anything demonstrates the fact that Miss Newton is
getting old , it is her taste in music. Turn on Miss
Newtons IPOD and you will see the following: Oasis,
the Verve and the Foo Fighters. Poor Miss Newton
thinks she is really cool. She knows who the Wanted
and Tine Tempah is; she even likes the new song by DJ
Fresh. However lets face it, when she drives home she
sings very loudly to the Take That album. And if you
said “Dub step” to her, she’d give you a very blank look.
Listen to this clip.
How and where can
punctuation be used?
Write a sentence with
a piece of phonetic
punctuation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7L02tCNi0I