Punctuation

Front 1

Capital letters

Back 1

To begin proper nouns,

important words,

the pronoun "I",

A sentence,

A quotation,

A salutation,

And closing a letter.

Front 2

Full stops

Back 2

At the end of a sentence that:

makes a statement,

Gives a command,

Makes a request, or

For abbreviations.

Front 3

Question Mark

Back 3

At the end of a sentence which is a direct question.

Front 4

Exclamation Marks

Back 4

To express strong feelings, suchas:

Surprise, excitement, and amusement.

Front 5

Commas

Back 5

To separate items in a list or series,

To separate units of thought in a sentence, To set off a short phrase or word,

To give additional information or explanation,

To separate names of persons addressed,and

To set off a direct quotation.

Front 6

The apostrophe of possession

Back 6

It comes immediately after the word that names the owner or owners in both singular and plural nouns.

Front 7

Apostrophe

Back 7

This tells us that letters are missing.

Let's, what's, can't, etc.

Front 8

Inverted commas or quotation marks

Back 8

Use double quotation marks to enclose the direct or extract words of the speaker.

Use quotation marks to enclose the title of a book, flip or a play.

Use quotation marks when you quote from a text.

Periods, question marks, commas and exclamation marks are always enclosed by quotation marks. Colon and semicolon outside quotation marks.

Front 9

Semicolons

Back 9

Separate whole clauses that are closely connected.

Are used with series.

Are used with conjunctions.

Used to separate transitional phrases in a sentence.

Used with incomplete clauses.

Front 10

Colons

Back 10

To introduce long quotations.

To introduce a list.

Front 11

Hyphen

Back 11

Used to join adjectives.

To write compound numbers.

To mark out fractions used as adjectives.

To mark out prefixes and suffixes.