Students:

-Sebastian Bravo Ramos

-Joaquín Muñante Reyes
-Carlos Rios Liza
-Meylin Ñaupas García
-Ricardo Pedraza Monroe
 The period (known as a full stop in British
English) is probably the simplest of the
punctuation marks to use.

 You use it like a knife to cut the sentences to

the required length.
 EXAMPLES
MARK THE END OF
•Rome is the capital of Italy. EXAMPLES
A•I was
SENTENCE
born in Australia and PERIODAFTER A
•"Goodbye."
WHICH
now live in IS NOT A
Indonesia. •"Stop."
SINGLE WORD
•The Dalai Lama is the
QUESTION
spiritual leader ofOR AN
the Tibetan
EXCLAMATION
people.
EXAMPLES
•The Lord's Prayer begins,
"Our Father which art in
Heaven..."
ELLIPSIS
•He is always late, but you
know how I feel about that...

EXAMPLES EXAMPLES
•I will arrive between 6 a.m. •$10.43 = ten dollars and 43
andINDICATE
7 a.m. cents
AN •14.17 =PERIODS
fourteen pointIN
one
•We are coming on Fri., Jan.
4. ABBREVIATION seven NUMBERS
 There are some general rules which you can apply when using the
comma. However, you will find that in English there are many
other ways to use the comma to add to the meaning of a sentence
or to emphasise an item, point, or meaning.

 Although we are often taught that commas are used to help us

add 'breathing spaces' to sentences they are, in fact, more
accurately used to organise blocks of thought or logical groupings.
 SEPARATE
PHRASES, ENCLOSING PARTICIPIAL
WORDS, OR DETAILS PHRASES
CLAUSES IN LISTS

TAG QUESTIONS INTERJECTIONS

 EXAMPLES
•I met Harry, we went for EXAMPLES
aA SERIES
swim together, OF
and •Tony
A SERIESran towards
OF me,
INDEPENDENT
afterwards Harry went fell, yelled, and fainted.
home. VERBS
•The boy leapt, spun,
CLAUSES
•I like your son, I might twisted, and dove into
(SENTENCES)
even love him, but he is EXAMPLES the water.
not a very good soccer •She was young,
player. beautiful, kind, and
intelligent.
A SERIES OF
•The house we visited
wasADJECTIVES
dark, dreary, and
run-down. EXAMPLES
EXAMPLES •She was wearing a •The car smashed into the
•For dinner I had soup, bright red shirt. wall, flipped onto its roof,
fish, chicken, dessert, and slid along the road, and
A SERIES OF
coffee. A SERIES
finally OF a
stopped against
NOUNS
•This afternoon I went to PHRASES
tree.
Oxford Circus, Picadilly, •The dog leapt into the air,
Hamstead, and Gatwick snatched the frisbee in its
Airport. mouth, landed, and ran off
into the forest.
 EXAMPLES EXAMPLES
•China, one of the most powerful nations
on Earth, has a huge population. TAG
•She lives in Paris, doesn't

ENCLOSING
•Jason's grandmother, who was born in
she?

QUESTIONS
•We haven't met, have we?
1930, lived through the Second World
War.
DETAILS
•Cats, unlike dogs, do not respect their
masters.
•My friend, Jim, likes to go scuba diving.

EXAMPLES EXAMPLES
•Hearing that her father was in hospital, •Yes, I will stay a little longer, thank

PARTICIPIAL
Jane left work immediately. you.
•Walking to the bus stop that morning,
INTERJECTIONS
•No, he isn't like other boys.

PHRASES
Sam knew it was going to be a special day. •Wait, I didn't mean to scare you.
 Putting a comma in the wrong place can lead to a
sentence with a completely different meaning, look at
these two sentences:
- I detest liars like you; I believe that honesty is the best
policy. = I detest you because you are a liar.
-I detest liars, like you; I believe that honesty is the best
policy. = You and I bothdetestliars.

A FINAL
WARNING
 Comma Full-Stop

It appears as a single It appears as one single

Appearance
closing question mark. dot.

A comma in grammar is
used to represent various A full-stop is used to
Uses
items of the same terminate any sentence.
category.

Its role is to provide the

Its role is to conclude the
Role addition of the
end of any subject.
components.

They are present after the It is present after every

Presence
varieties of contents. end of the sentence.

Full-stop is also used

Comma is also used after
Alternate use after the abbreviated
the conjunctions.
degrees.