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    The document explains the purposes of common punctuation marks - the exclamation mark (!) to show excitement, question mark (?) to indicate a question, apostrophe (') to join words or show possession, quotation marks ("") to indicate speech, full stop (.) to end a sentence, and comma (,) to pause in a sentence. Examples are provided for each punctuation mark.

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    !

    Exclamation Mark

    To show someone is exclaiming


    or shouting something.

    For example:
    I am so excited!

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    ?
    Question Mark

    To show someone that someone


    is asking a question.

    For example:
    Do you have a pet dragon?

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    ’
    Apostrophe

    Allows us to join two


    words together.

    For example:
    do not becomes don’t

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    ’
    Apostrophe

    To show possession.

    For example:
    The children’s toys
    were tidied away.

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    Speech Marks

    “”
    To show us when
    someone is talking.

    For example:
    “Hello”, said Susan.

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    .
    Full Stop

    To show us when a
    sentence is finished.

    For example:
    I’m so sad this is over.

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    ,
    Comma

    To show a little
    pause in a sentence.

    For example:
    In the morning,
    I ate my breakfast.

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