Punctuation & Capitalisation questions for Primary 2 English

Every answer with the reasoning behind it. Worth reading after you have tried the set — or on its own, if you are a parent marking it.

1. Which sentence is written correctly?

   Answer: My brother lost his water bottle.

   A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.

2. Which mark should end this sentence? Have you seen my pencil case

   Answer: ?

   The sentence asks something, so it ends with a question mark.

3. Which sentence is written correctly?

   Answer: On Friday, Siti and I fed the rabbits.

   Days, people's names and the word I all take capital letters.

4. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

   Answer: I packed my ruler, my eraser and two pencils.

   Commas go between the things in a list, and the last two are joined by and.

5. Which mark should end this sentence? What a big spider that is

   Answer: !

   A sentence beginning What a ... shows surprise, so it ends with an exclamation mark.

6. Which sentence is written correctly?

   Answer: We went to the zoo in Singapore.

   Names of places take capitals; ordinary words such as zoo do not.

7. Which is written correctly?

   Answer: It started to rain. We ran inside.

   Each sentence needs its own capital letter at the start and full stop at the end.

8. Which sentence is written correctly?

   Answer: My birthday is in March.

   Months of the year take capital letters. Ordinary words like birthday do not.

9. Which sentence needs a question mark?

   Answer: Can I borrow your stapler

   Can I ... begins a question, and a question ends with a question mark.

10. Which sentence is written correctly?

    Answer: Mrs Lim gave Ahmad a sticker.

    A person's title and every part of their name take capital letters.