Punctuation marks - By: sofia duran

Punctuation marks - By: sofia duran

1. There are 14 punctuation marks that are used in English grammar. They help us to make our writing easy and logical to read. I´m going to talk about the most common in grammar: the period, the comma, the colon and the semicolon.

2. The period: we use the period to cut sentences in a paragraph and to mark the end of a sentence.

   • Ex: My dog is in the garden.
   • Ex: My dog is in the garden. He wants to play with me.

3. The comma: it is used in a sentence when we want to pause before proceeding, add a phrase or separate items on a list.

   • Ex: My dog wants to play with me, but I have to go to my house right now.
   • Ex: My dog wants to play with me, but I have to go to my house right now, go to the supermarket, do my homework and visit my mom.

4. The colon: it is used before a list, after a reaging or a descriptive tittle

   • Ex: In the supermaket I have to buy: milk, sugar, eggs, vegetables, fruits, bread.

5. Semicolon: we use it to connect or join together two sentences that are related or to join sentences with a transition.

   • Ex: My dog wants to play with me; I can´t because I have to go to my house right now and then; do the rest of the things that I have to do.