Name: Intro to Punctuation for Kids: English Grammar for Children - FreeSchool
Uploaded: 2017-10-24T08:20:04.000Z
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Today we're going to talk about punctuation.

Punctuation is the name for specific kinds of marks used in writing.

When you are speaking, you can use pauses or stops, and change your tone of voice to

When you are writing, you can use punctuation to do the same thing.

Punctuation can help us when we read to understand what is written correctly.

Let's learn about some of the more common types of punctuation!

A period is a dot that marks the end of a sentence.

Periods are the most common way to end a sentence, because they are used to end any sentence

An exclamation will end with an exclamation point.

Exclamation points are used to show strong feelings, like excitement, or show that something

Question marks are easy to understand: they belong at the end of questions.

Any time you have a question, you end it with a question mark.

Let's see some of the places a comma should be used!

Commas should be used to separate three or more items in a list.

They are also used to separate compound sentences - two complete sentences connected by a conjunction

Commas are used after introductory words, clauses, or phases to set them apart from

You should also use commas to separate the name of a city from its country or state,

and to set apart the day of the week or month when writing a date.

Finally, commas are used to separate quotations from the rest of a sentence.

A quotation is something that someone else has said or written.

Quotation marks are used at the beginning and end of a sentence or phrase to show that

it is being written exactly the way it was written or said originally.

The last punctuation mark we are going to talk about today is the apostrophe.

Apostrophes can be used in a contraction to show that there are missing letters.

Apostrophes are also used to show possession, or that something belongs to someone.

There are still more types of punctuation to learn about, but I hope this helped you

to understand how to use basic punctuation marks.