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Punctuation & Capitalisation questions for Primary 3 English
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- Apostrophes showing belonging
- Apostrophes in short forms
- Speech marks
- Capital letters for names
- Capitals for subjects and languages
- Commas in a list
- End punctuation
- Apostrophes in irregular plurals
- Capitals after a full stop
- Speech marks with a question
Answers and explanations for all 10 questions
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.
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer: My sister's bicycle has a flat tyre.
One sister owns the bicycle, so the apostrophe goes before the s: my sister's bicycle.
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer: It's raining again, and the dog has lost its ball.
It's is only ever short for it is. The ball belongs to the dog, and that its takes no apostrophe.
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer: "Please pass me the stapler," said Mrs Koh.
The spoken words end with a comma inside the closing speech marks, then said Mrs Koh finishes the sentence.
Which sentence is written correctly?
Answer: On Monday, Miss Tan took our class to the Science Centre.
Days, people's names and the names of places take capitals; ordinary nouns such as class do not.
Which sentence is written correctly?
Answer: We have English on Tuesday and science on Thursday.
English is a language, so it always takes a capital. Ordinary subjects such as science do not, and days always do.
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer: Pack your water bottle, a raincoat, sunblock and a cap.
Commas separate the items in a list, and the last two are joined by and.
Which sentence ends with the correct punctuation mark?
Answer: Could you tell me where the hall is?
A sentence that asks something ends with a question mark.
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer: The children's playground was repainted last week.
Children does not end in s, so it takes an apostrophe and then an s: the children's playground.
Which sentence is written correctly?
Answer: The bell rang. Everyone lined up quietly by the door.
Each sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer: "Has anyone seen my water bottle?" asked Hafiz.
The question mark goes inside the closing speech marks, and asked continues the same sentence in lower case.