puntuation

1. Assignment Writing 2
My Leacture “ DJ “

2. Punctuation
Capitalization
&

3. Apostrophe Apostrophe has two
purposes, to
demonstrate
Ownership (possession)
and contractions.
Examples
Those are Herry’s
books. (ownership)
don’t is’nt
She’s a great teacher.
(constraction)

4. Capital Letters
Capital Letter is a capital
letter on the first word in
each sentence and the first
letter of the name of the
person or place.
Examples
Indonesia has more than
one thousands islands.
I buy a dress for Dhea.

5. Colon
Used to specify a list of
things and showed excerpts.
Examples
There are many kind of
method in teaching: TPR,
CLL, CLT, GTM and etc.
The owner of the
company said: “I have
invested all my stocks.”

6. Comma Used to indicate a pause
sentence.
Examples
When the bell rang, I was in
my bedroom doing my
assignment.
Used on a quote to show that
someone has said directly.
Examples
“I can come today,” she said,
“but not tomorrow.”
Commas can be placed
between clauses as additional
information in a sentence

7. Dash
Used before a phrase which is
the main idea of a sentence.
Examples
Blue, purple and green – these
are my favorit colors.
Used before and after phrases
or lists that show additional
information in mid-sentence.
Examples
The children - Pierre, Laura,
and Ashley - went to the
store.

8. Ellipsis points
Ellipsis is a reduction of one or
more words in a paragraph, usually
used in citations. Ellipsis Points
can be placed at the beginning,
middle or end of a sentence.
Examples
The greater the knowledge of a
reader, the better the
comprehension of text....
Knowledge is an organized
collection of information....
Comprehension within this
framework is perceived more as
confirmation of hypotheses about
the way the world is thought to be
than as a purely original
assimilation of new facts.

9. Exclamation marks
Used at the end of a sentence
to show excitement or
surprise.
Examples
“Congratulation!” she said to
me because I have won the
competition.
“Help, help!” She shouted.

10. Used to end a sentence.
Full stop Examples
I have finished my assignment last
night.
Used to write the title (titles),
acronyms (abbreviations) and
letters stands for the word
description (Acronyms).
Examples
Titles : M.Pd, M.Ag,
M.Hum
Abbreviation/ acronyms : Prof.,
U.S.A.,

11. Hyphen
Used to combine two words
from one idea simultaneously.
Examples
sweet-smelling
fire-resistant
To combine affixes the word
Examples
non-contact
Used when writing combined
figure
one-quarter
twenty-three

12. Quotation marks
Used to indicate that someone has
said directly.
Examples
"Hallie said, 'Mimi, please wash
the dishes.'“
"'Today,' said our teacher 'is the
first day of the rest of your lives.'"

13. Parantheses
Used to include material that will
be explained.
Examples
Thirty-five years after his death,
Robert Frost remains America's
favorite poet. (We remember
him at Kennedy's inauguration.)

14. Question marks
 Used to write questions, inquiring
and asking something.
 Examples
 How many kind of Orchid?
 “Why don’t you buy a new one?”

15. Semi colon
Used to combine two
sentences into one sentence
stem.
Examples
 The festival is very
popular; people from all
over the world visit each
year.
Using a semicolon on the
list who have used the
comma.

16. Slash
Used to show or
Used to indicate fractions
Used to indicate "a" in the
measurement of speed, price, etc.
Used in a separate date, month
and year.
Examples
Dear Sir/Madam
1/2 (one half), 2/3 (two thirds)
The speed limit is 100 km/h.
(kilometres per hour)
He was born on 30/11/2007

17. Underlines
 Used to suppress or confirm
word or phrase in an article.
 Examples
 ..showed after the
significance test that the true
value was ...
 (becomes ‘the true value’)

18. Capitalization