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WEEK 12
Akun A2 5 des 2020
Man B1 8 DES 2020
Man B2 10 DES 2020
Man A3 16 Des 2020
Akun B1 16 des 2020
reference page: when to use capital letters
reference page: punctuation marks

REFERENCE PAGE: WHEN TO USE CAPITAL LETTERS

Use a capital letter…….

1. For “I”
a. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to Haramaya University. - 1

2. To begin a sentence
a. Thank you for your letter of 5 January. - 1

3. To begin a speech
a. The staff said: “Sorry - there is an important meeting - 1

4. For many abbreviations and acronyms - 2

a. UN, HIV/AIDS, VSO, ELIP

5. For days of the week, months of the year and holidays - 3

a. Monday, May, Easter

6. For countries, languages and nationalities, religions - 4

a. Ethiovia, English, American, Orthodox Christian, Muslim

7. For people’s names and titles - 2

a. Professor Smith, Dr. Wilson, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones

8. For trade-marks and names of companies and other organizations - 3

a. Coca-Cola, Microsoft Corporation, Toyota, the Red Cross

9. For places and monuments - 2

a. Addis Ababa, Harer, Lalibela

10. For titles of books, songs, films - 3

a. “Business English” Ghost Buster

REFERENCE PAGE: PUNCTUATION MARKS

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Punctuation is the system of symbols (e.g. ! ? , . -) that we use to separate sentences and parts of sentences
to make their meaning clear. Each symbol is called a punctuation mark.

Symbol Name Example

. full stop/period (U.S) The meeting is on Monday
morning.
, comma I speak English, Amharic and
Afan Oromo.
? question mark How are you?
! exclamation mark Help!
- hyphen The university has a very up-to-
date computer system.
- dash dash In each town – Harer and
Dire Dawa – there is a Ras Hotel.

/ oblique/slash Please press your browser’s

Refresh/Reload button
“ sign here.” quotation marks The staff said: “Please sign here.”
’ apostrophe The President’s Office
The Students’ Lounge
; semi-colon I don’t watch TV very often; I
prefer to read.
: colon Subject:

The Value of Punctuation……….!!!

An English teacher wrote these words on the whiteboard:
“Woman without her man is nothing.”
The teacher then asked the students to punctuate the sentence.

The men wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”

The women wrote: “Woman! Without her, man is nothing.”