SMA NEGERI 1

RENGASDENGKLOK

XI SCIENCE ONE
 Sentence

A sign is used to creat sense,

clarity and stress in sentence.
 Uses Examples
1. For the first letter of a 1. Reading is a good
sentence. habit.
2. For countries, 2. Indonesia, Africa,
nationalities, languages, Indonesian, Russian,
religions, names of George, Maya,
people, places, events, Geneva, The World
Capital letter organization, trademarks, Trade Fair, Sunday,
days, month, tittles. January,
3. For tittles of books, films, Mr./Mrs./Ms./Dr./Pr
etc. ofessor.
4. For abreviations. 3. The Lord of the Ring
4. OPEC, AIDS, WWF.
 Uses Examples
1. At the end of the 1. She is going to New
sentence . York
2. Sometimes after an 2. Ahmad Ali A./Mrs.
abbreviation. White/Dr. Evans
3. As the decimal point in 3. 3.5 million
figures and amounts of 4. http://www.coolqui
Full Stop money. This is usually z.com
(UK)/Period (US)
read out as ‘point’
(.)
4. To separate parts of
email and web
adresses. This is read
out as ‘dot’
 1. After a direct 1. Where are you
question. going ?
2. Sidney Morgan
2. To show doubt.
(1898? - 1972)
was little known
until after his
Question mark (?)
death.
 Uses Examples
1. At the end of a 1. I can’t
sentence in order
to show
believe it!
Exclamation surprise/shock, 2.Bang!
mark (!) etc.
2. To indicate a loud
sound.
 Uses Examples
1. Between items in a 1. I want to buy sugar,
list. salt, eggs, and
butter.
2. To show a pause in
2. She was watering
a long sentence. the flower, when i
Comma (,) 3. When you want to came.
add extra 3. Dinda, who i told
information. you about before,
will be coming.
4. Before tag
4. You won’t leave me,
questions. will you?
 Uses
1. For missing letter.
2. For possessives
Note:
a. Words ending in ‘s’
don’t need another ‘s’
Apostrophe
added.
(‘) b. It’s can only be an
abbreviation for it is or
it has. There is no
apostrophe in
possessive form.
Examples
1. I’II (I will), it’s
(It is), don’t (do
not)
2. Ruby’s book,
George’s bike,
3. It’s raining.
4. Paris never loses
its charm.
 Uses Examples
1.To introduce a 1. You need these
list or a following
things: paint,
quotation in a
Colon (:) brushes, water,
sentence.
clothes.
2. Dear customer.
 Uses Examples
1. To separate 1. I spoke to
two parts of a Danti on
Monday; she
sentence.
Semi Colon can’t came on
(;) meeting
tomorrow.
 Uses Examples
1. To joint two words 1. Blue-back
together. 2. Everyone in
2. To show that a
the room was
words has been
divided and
struck by hi-
Hyphen (-) air of sadness.
continues on the
next line.
 Uses Examples
1. To separate 1. The book—the
one with the
parts of broken cover—
sentences. was taken from
2.To mean to the city library.
Dash () 2. The Jakarta—
Bandung train
leaves every
morning at
eight.
 Uses Examples
1. To show that words are 1. ‘I can’t go with
spoken. you’ she said.
2. To show that someone
2. She said
else originally wrote
the words. described the
Quotation Marks Note: school as ‘not
(‘...’) or (“...”) Single quotation marks attracting the
are some usual in UK best pupils’.
English, and double
3. “Let’s write” she
quotation marks are
more usual in US suggested.
English.