Capital letters for proper nouns and the

beginning of sentences. Full-stops at the end of sentences. Commas for pauses and for lists of things.

one sunny day in july mrs brown decided to take her family for a picnic in the woods at beamish she made a big pile of sandwiches and put them in a plastic box colin packed some cans of coca cola for the children to drink mr brown made a flask of coffee for himself and his wife tom filled a tin with biscuits and tiny cakes sarah put oranges plums apples and bananas into a bag when the food was ready they packed it in the boot of the car and set off for beamish