Punctuation - Capital Letter and Fullstop

Capital letter

We use capital letter in the following case:

1. To begin a sentence

Example : This is my house.

2. For proper noun

Example : Riya lives in Mumbai.

3. For pronoun ‘I’

Example : I like to eat ice - cream.

4. Names of Days of Week,Months of Year, Rivers etc begins with capital Letters.

Example :

My next exam is on coming Tuesday.

Her Birthday is in December.

Full Stop (.)

1. Full stop is used at the end statement or command sentence.

Example:

This is a red car. (Statement)

Come here. (Command)

2. Full stop is used in end of abbreviations if the first and only a part of the word are used.

Example:

Captain (Capt.)

3. Full stop is not used in the abbreviations if the last letter of word is included in the abbreviations.( according to UK convention)

Example:

Doctor (Dr)

Practice Exercise

Q1) Rearrange the words to make meaningful sentences using capital letter and full stop wherever necessary.

1. tails have monkeys long
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2. like colouring I in a drawing book
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3. there months are year in a twelve 
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4. elders we respect should our
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5. cow the green eats grass
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6. is my she friend best
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7. the east rises in the sun
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8. two sisters have I one brother and
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9. playing are kittens wool the with
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10. write I my with hand right
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11. I to tidy want keep my table
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12. belongs to this book me
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13. the thief chasing chasing the policeman is
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14. climbing they the hill are up
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