Punctuation
Punctuation review 2
Punctuate the following paragraph. There are nine sentences involving punctuation marks (including capital letters for sentence beginnings). Click Review Answer at any time to see how you are going.
Instructions:
- Read the text below
- Add the appropriate punctuation to the text in the box provided
- Click review answer button. This will open a results window where all your results will appear for this page.
a sentence expresses a complete idea or thought it is complete because it needs no other words for it to make grammatical sense a sentence usually consists of at least one noun phrase and a verb phrase the noun phrase designates the subject of the sentence and the verb phrase tells us something about that subject noun phrases and verb phrases can involve other words such as adjectives adverbs pronouns prepositions and so on while words and phrases are important we should not forget the necessity to use appropriate punctuation marks help structure the various parts of a sentence into identifiable units of meaning they are the signs that alert readers to the appropriate pauses in your text common punctuation marks are full stops commas colons semicolons apostrophes dashes and brackets