PUNCTUATION

1. Period/Full Stop (.)- To end a sentence.

2. Comma (,)-
3. Exclamation Mark (!)
4. Question Mark (?)
5. Colon (:)- To make a list
6. Semi-Colon (;) – in place of a full stop, when two independent clauses
are joined, to show a change in idea.
7. Ellipsis (…)- Continuation of a sentence, To create suspense, To show a
thought but not quite the end of a sentence.
8. Hyphen (-)- To join two words to make a compound word.
9. Dash (--)- Sometimes used in place of a comma in complex sentences to
show a change in idea, sometimes to show a list.

10. Inverted Commas (“…”)- In direct speech

11. Square brackets ([…])- To edit something in a sentence, or to
show the implied meaning in a sentence.
12. Parentheses (())- To show a change in idea in place of a comma.

ANTONYMS:
Hostile – Friendly Compliment- Insult Busy – Idle
Afraid – Confident Cautious – Careless Trivial- Important
Crooked – Straight Expand – Contract Knowledge-Ignorance
Deep – Shallow Freeze – Boil Obvious-Hidden
Amateur – Professional Generous – Stingy Nothing- Something
Ascend – Descend Gloomy – Cheerful Often- Seldom
Ancient – Modern Huge – Tiny Permanent- Stable
Blunt – Sharp Individual – Group Plentiful- Sparse
Bold – Timidly Idle -Active Rare-Common
Quality-Inferiority Random-Specific Regret-Rejoice
Rigid-Flexible Segregate-Integrate Seldom-Often
Simple-Complicated Stiff-Flexible Tame-Wild
Timid-Bold Vague-Definite Vacant-Occupied
Villain-Hero Wax-Wane Urge-Deter