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Read the following examples:

1. Gandhiji said: “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.”

2. You can eat one of these fruits : mango, grapes, orange, apple.

6. Semicolon ( ; ): It represents a greater pause than that indicated by a comma.
Read the following examples:

1. I laughed; I sang; I danced with joy.
2. They laughed; they sang; they danced together.

7. Inverted Commas (“.........”): They are used to mark the actual words of the speaker

or a quotation.
Read the following example:

The teacher said, “Learn from your mistakes.”

8. Apostrophe ( ’ ): It is used to show possession. A comma can also be used to state
a quotation instead of a colon.
Read the following examples:
E.g., Gandhiji said, “Cleanliness is
1. Rekha’s father is an engineer.
next to Godliness.”
2. Kavita’s new dress is looking pretty.

A. Put the punctuation marks in the following sentences.
1. Soms uncle is tall fair and thin

2. Namit said Komal is eating food
3. When will you go
4. If you can do this come forward

5. Alas the old man fell down

B. Rewrite the following sentences using capital letters and punctuation marks
wherever necessary.
1. during winter vacation my cousin and i went to guwahati zoo i loved it one of
my favourite animal was the chimpanzee my cousins favourite animal was the
otter have you ever been there which is your favourite animal

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