Formatting
Punctuation
To give clarity and stress in sentences.
To structure and organize the writing.
- Let’s cook Uncle
- Let’s cook, Uncle!
Capital Letters
Placed at the beginning of any sentence.
All proper nouns– Names, Monuments, Geographical Locations, Nationalities, Languages, Days, Months, Holidays
Titles of Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Plays, Movies
- Lewis is the Owner of The New York Times.
Full Stop
Placed at the end of the sentence.
Used between initials / personal names
Used after Abbreviations
- M.J. James is a doctor.
Comma
To separate a list of similar words or phrases.
- Janet was young, pretty, kind and intelligent.
Place a comma after digits signifying thousands, except when referring to temperature or year.
- That would be 7,500 dollars.
- The year is 2022.
To introduce a complete quote.
- Tom said, “Jerry irritates me a lot!”
Do not use a comma in names ending with Jr. or a numeral.
- Martin Luther King Michael D. Smith Jr.
- William Edwards III
For a date, place a comma between the date and the year, and after the year.
- On July 4, 1776, the country celebrated its first Independence Day.
Do not place a comma between the month and year when the day is not mentioned.
- April 2022
Question Mark
Used to showcase that a question has been asked placed at the end of the interrogatory sentence.
- Do you speak Korean?
Exclamation Mark
Used to indicate expression in a sentence
Used to showcase emphasis in a sentence
Placed at the end of the exclamatory sentence
- I can’t believe we won!
- I can’t believe we lost!
Apostrophe
To make contractions of words
- they + will = they’ll
- they + have = they’ve
- are + not = aren’t
To show possession.
- This is Davy Jones’ locker.
- Someone broke into my grandparents’ home.
- Drake’s wife is an astronaut.
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