Punctuation question will appear in English Pemahaman (013) paper.

Usually it will be
on question 11.

Example:

• To answer this question, pupils must have the knowledge on common

punctuation marks.

• These are a few steps on how to answer this question correctly:

✓ Step 1: Read the question correctly.

✓ Step 2: Identify all the punctuation marks in the question.
✓ Step 3: Analyse all the answers.
✓ Step 4: Do the distracters elimination process.

Step 1: read
all the
answers.

Step 2:

Identify the punctuation marks in the question:

Quotation mark, comma, capital letters and full stop.

Step 3: analyse the answers:

a. “Children, please behave yourselves,” said Puan Maria to her son and daughter.
b. “Children Please behave yourselves,” said puan Maria to her son and daughter.
(the capital letters are not correctly used)
c. “children, Please behave yourselves,” said Puan Maria to her son and daughter.
(the capital letters are not correctly used)
d. “Children please behave yourselves” said puan Maria to her son and daughter.
(no comma at the sentence and there is no capital letter at the proper
noun:name)

Step 4: eliminate the distracters:

a. “Children, please behave yourselves,” said Puan Maria to her son and daughter.
b. “Children Please behave yourselves,” said puan Maria to her son and daughter.
c. “children, Please behave yourselves,” said Puan Maria to her son and daughter.
d. “Children please behave yourselves” said puan Maria to her son and daughter.

So the answer for this question is “a” because all the punctuation marks are correctly
used.