Punctuation

Question 1

Full stop

Answer 1

Marks the end of a sentence.

Question 2

Question mark

Answer 2

Indicates a direct question.

Question 3

Exclamation mark

Answer 3

To emphasise or to give the element of surprise.

Question 4

Commas

Answer 4

To separate items in a list.

Question 5

What does two commas do?

Answer 5

Are used to enclose extra information.

Question 6

Parenthesis

Answer 6

To separate phrases or clauses in a sentence. To introduce a list or an example.

Question 7

Dashes

Answer 7

To show an abrupt change of thought or interruption in a sentence.

Question 8

What can two dashes function as?

Answer 8

Parenthesis used to enclose extra information.

Question 9

What else can dashes show?

Answer 9

To show hesitation

Question 10

Initialism

Answer 10

Letter of the abbreviation are individually pronounced.

Question 11

Acronym

Answer 11

Pronounced as a single word.

Question 12

Contractions

Answer 12

Some letters are omitted to make the word shorter.

Question 13

Give an example of an initialism

Answer 13

UK, USA, ATM, CEO, FYI.

Question 14

Give an example of an acronym

Answer 14

NASA, NATO, UNICEF, LAN, scuba, laser.

Question 15

Give an example of a contraction

Answer 15

Mr. , Dr. , Jr. , Sr. , Ltd. , Sgt..

Question 16

Indirect (Reported) Speech

Answer 16

The actual words spoken are retold by someone else to another person.

Question 17

How do you indicate direct speech?

Answer 17

Words are in in inverted commas.
Each new speaker starts a new paragraph.

Question 18

Hyphen

Answer 18

Joins two or more words to form a compound word.

Question 19

What are the other functions of a hyphen?

Answer 19

That a word is continued on the following line.

Question 20

Ellipsis

Answer 20

When used in the middle of a sentence may indicate that a word(s) is missing.

Question 21

Direct Speech

Answer 21

This is the exact words that are said.

Question 22

What are the other functions of an ellipsis?

Answer 22

A dramatic pause (to show anti-climax). Used for readers to finish the thought or use their own imaginations. Introduce a quote.

Question 23

Semi-colon

Answer 23

To link two simple sentences.
(Stands in the place of a conjunction.)

Question 24

What are the other functions of a semi-colon?

Answer 24

To punctuate lists where individual items already require the use of a comma.

Question 25

Colon

Answer 25

To indicate that a list or an example follows.

Question 26

What are the other functions of a colon?

Answer 26

To indicate a quote from a book.

Question 27

What does an apostrophe indicate?

Answer 27

Contraction, possession.

Question 28

Contraction

Answer 28

Indicates that letters are missing.

Question 29

Give an example of a contraction

Answer 29

can’t.

Question 30

Possession

Answer 30

Indicates what belongs to whom.

Question 31

Give an example of a possession statement

Answer 31

The children’s toys.

Question 32

What is special about Possessive pronouns?

Answer 32

Never take an apostrophe.

Question 33

What is another word for brackets?

Answer 33

Parenthesis.

Question 34

How do you indicate names of whole pieces, such as novels, plays, anthologies, films?

Answer 34

By underlining them.

Question 35

How do you indicate names of part of a whole, such as short stories and poems?

Answer 35

With inverted commas.

Question 36

Abbreviations

Answer 36

Ia a shorthanded form of a word or phrase.
e.g. SU ,USA