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Part of Speech Example Sentence
I ate an apple yesterday.
Articles a, an, the
The bus is late.

Conjunctions connecting words—because, and, but, so I was hungry, so I ate the apple.
Prepositions show relation between words—of, between, for The baby cried for a long time.
Interjections words express strong emotions—alas, wow Wow! What a beautiful necklace.

Using Capitals
We know that every sentence starts with a capital letter. Do you know where else in a sentence a capital letter
should be used? Remembering the term ‘MINTS’ helps with capitalisation. MINTS is a basic set of principles for
proper capitalisation. Each letter in the word MINTS represents one capitalisation rule.
Capitalise your
M.I.N.T.S.

M. Months and Days
My birthday is on Monday, October 21st.
I. Letter I (by itself)
If I go to the store, I buy ice cream.
Names (of people and places)
N. Carrie, who is from Kardas, would love to
go to Italy.
T. Titles (of movies, songs, and books)
I love the movie Up.
Start of Sentences
S. Capitalising is easy when you remember
M.I.N.T.S.

Punctuation
Punctuation marks, such as full stops and commas, help separate elements of a sentence and express its
meaning. Punctuation, like capitalisation, plays a crucial role in sentences and follows specific rules. Here are
some frequently utilized punctuation marks:

Full Stop Question Mark Comma Exclamation Quotation Colon
. ? , Mark Mark :

Shows Shows Join two or ! “ ” Introduce
the end of that a question more ideas in Show strong Shows that the information
a sentence is being asked a sentence or emphasis or word have been that comes after
separates items strong emotion directly quoted it
in a series

Semi Colon Apostrophe Hyphen Slash Ellipsis Parentheses
; ' - / ... ( )

Connected Used to show Form compound Used to separate Shows that Used to add
two complete possession or for words letters, numbers something has extra information
sentences that contraction of or words been removed in a sentence
are related word from a sentence

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