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This English lesson covers punctuation rules for 9th grade students. It discusses the proper use of commas, semicolons, apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens, parentheses, capital letters, full stops, exclamation points, and question marks. Examples are provided to illustrate when to use each punctuation mark correctly in sentences. The lesson concludes by listing references used to develop the material presented.
Punctuation powerpoint presentation
- 1. ENGLISH LESSON GRADE: 9 TOPIC: PUNCTUATION Presented by Maluleke T.S.
- 2. How Do You Use the Comma? Use a comma to separate independent clause (sentences) in a compound sentence. I like English, BUT it is difficult.
- 3. How Do You Use the Comma? Continue Use commas to separate words, phrases, and clauses when there are three or more in a series. For instance, Sanny can run, jump, and skip.
- 4. More on Commas When the date identifies the day of the week, the date is set off with a comma. See the example below: On Thursday, August 25, school resumes.
- 5. More on Commas Use Comma to set off nouns of direct. For example: “Gertrude, I want you to know that Matilda like George.” address. Use a comma to set off a year when it is with a month and date. - Julius was born June 25, 1954, in Gauteng, Soweto.
- 6. More on Commas Use commas when writing full addresses in sentence form. I live at 2345 Westchester Blvd., Springfield, IL 62703 Use commas to set off introductory phrases that come at the beginning of a sentence. Feeling anxious, George slowly stepped on the stage.
- 7. Use commas to set off nonrestrictive relative clauses (not necessary to the meaning of the sentence) from the rest of the sentence. Who Whose) Restrictive/nonrestrictive Whom Which) Nonrestrictive (needs a
- 8. Commas Continue ◦That boy, who is standing by the door is my son.
- 9. Commas Use commas to set of parenthetical expressions. -Jason is handsome, however, looks can be deceiving. Use a comma to set off short quoted sentences from the rest of the sentence. Hamlet said, “To be or not to be. That is the question.”
- 10. Commas Use commas to set of parenthetical expressions. -Jason is handsome, however, looks can be deceiving. Use a comma to set off short quoted sentences from the rest of the sentence. Hamlet said, “To be or not to be. That is the question.”
- 11. Use a semi-colon to separate independent sentences. These are sentences that are closed conned in thought and not joined by a conjunction. For example, After class, I went to the Pizza Hut; then I graded papers for an hour.
- 12. Use a semi-colon to separate independent clause if there are commas within the parts. I wrote to George, Matilda, and Gertrude; and Ellen notified Jason by phone.
- 13. Capitals latters A capital letter is normally used in writing: For the first letter of the first word at the beginning of a sentence For the first letter of proper nouns (Kevin), countries (South Africa), cities (Johannesburg), and titles (the Champion).
- 14. Capitals latters For the first letter of the names of days (Tuesday), months (February), festivals (Dwali). For the first letter of houses, ships, streets, newspapers, books, play-titles (King Street). For a person‟s initials (K.G. Baxter). For the word I.
- 15. Full stops A full stop is used at the end of a sentence, unless the sentence calls for a question mark (?) or an exclamation mark (!). Example, Joyce went to the shop.
- 16. The power of the English Language
- 17. Exclamation marks An exclamation mark is used after expressions of surprise, motion, fear and delight: For instance, Oh!, Ah!, Look!, and Hurrah!
- 18. Exclamation marks Examples, What a superb goal Gigs scored at Highbury! I did not know you were here! How fierce she looks!
- 19. Question marks A question mark is always placed at the end of a question. What are you doing? But a question mark is not used in: I asked them what they were doing.
- 20. Apostrophes An apostrophe is a mark (‘ ) used to indicate. the possessive case the omission of a letter or letters If the word does not end in s, add „s:
- 21. Apostrophes Examples, The book of the boy – the boy‟s book The book of the children – the children‟s books If the word ends in s and is singular, add „s: The book of Charles – Charles‟s book
- 22. Quotation marks (inverted commas Words quoted are put into quotation marks. The boy said, “He has the book”. Note the comma before the quotation mark and that since the words inside the marks form a sentence, the first letter is a capital letter
- 23. Hyphen The sign (-) used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning or that they are linked in the grammar of a sentence For instance, a pick-me-up, mother-inlaw, good-hearted.
- 24. Parenthesis Use parenthesis to enclose words or figures that clarify or are used as an aside. Example: He received one hundred and fifty points (150)on his math project.
- 25. List of references Kevin Baxter. September, 18. 2013 http://www.slideshare.net/KevinBaxter1/english-basics-punctuation Karin Heart.2013, http://www.slideshare.net/karrinheart/punctuation-13609611 Ellen Conner. 2010. http://www.slideshare.net/conno1ej/punctuation-powerpoint3312708 Arundathie Abeysinghe, International Avlation Academy.Srilankan Airline http://www.slideshare.net/arundathie81/esl-punctuation-rulescommas