PUNCTUATION
A. Punctuate these sentences with suitable punctuation marks.
Capital letters
1. i met yusof at the town library.
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2. mount kinabalu in sabah is the highest mountain in southeast asia.
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3. every saturday,i play basketball with jim and raju.
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Full stop and comma
1. They needed a pair of scissors some glue old newspapers and some
coloured cloth
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2. Walk up the stairs turn right and walk until the end of the corridor
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3. Good morning Miss Tan said George
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Question mark and exclamation mark.
1. Where is my pen asked Paul.
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2. What would you like to eat for dinner
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3. Is she ready to go asked father.
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4. Help someone has snatched my handbag.
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5. Hurray were going to Cameron Highlands for a holiday.
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6. Keep quiet I cannot study in such a noisy room.
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B. Punctuate the paragraphs below with suitable punctuation words.
pak samad and his wife siti sell fruits in a fruit stall near the
flats they live in one of the units in the block of flats
one afternoon siti went home for lunch she climbed up the
stairs slowly when she reached her flat on the second floor she saw
the door to her flat open she knew that something wasnt right
siti souted help theres a thief in my flat
the thief heard her shouts he dashed out of the flat siti grabbed
his shirt but he broke free and ran down the stairs he stepped on a
banana peel and slipped thud thud thud he went rolling down he cried
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aloud in pain
ive sprained my ankle and I cant get up please send me to the
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hospital said the thief
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