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Communication Skills-II Jayatee Bhattacharya, Lovely Professional University

notes unit 11: use of capitals and Basic Punctuations

contents

Objectives
Introduction
11.1 Use of Capitals
11.2 Basic Punctuation
11.2.1 Comma
11.2.2 Full Stop or Period (.)

11.2.3 Colon (:)
11.2.4 Semi-Colon (;)
11.2.5 Hyphen (-)
11.2.6 Inverted Commas

11.2.7 Apostrophe (‘)
11.3 Summary
11.4 Keywords
11.5 Review Questions
11.6 Further Readings

objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

l Know the rules of capitalization
l Identify the different punctuation marks
l Discuss the rules regarding the use of various punctuation marks

introduction

Punctuation marks are symbols that indicate the structure and organization of written language,
as well as intonation and pauses to be observed when reading aloud. You use punctuation marks
to structure and organise your writing. The most common of these are the period (or full stop in
British English), the comma, the exclamation mark, the question mark, the colon and semi-colon,
the quote, the apostrophe, the hyphen and dash, and parentheses and brackets. Capital letters are
also used to help us organise meaning and to structure the sense of our writing. In this unit, you
will learn how and when to use different punctuation marks and how to use capitals.

11.1 use of capitals

Most often while writing, some people are confused when it comes to capital letters; which word
should start with a capital letter and under what circumstances, especially when the word is not
the first word of the sentence? Well, the rules for the capitalization of words in English are simple
and not many.

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