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Tuesday 25 September 2018

How to use different kinds of punctuation

Colon and semi-colon.
BEFORE:  BETWEEN;

Miss Ashley’s example:
Mary went to the fruit shop and bought lots of different fruit. She bought: bananas; pears; apples; and a pineapple.

The girls team had 10 players. The team was: Hiria; Ana; Maria; Vina; Lily; Vaiola and Maani.

My examples:
There are ten colours in the rainbow:red;orange;yellow;green;light blue;dark blue and purple.
  There are 9 boys in room 7: keru;railey;fereti;timote;tipene;leon;havea;stanley and davlyn

Commas in listing.
Miss Ashley’s example: The girls team had 10 players. The team was Hiria, Ana, Maria, Vina, Lily, Vaiola and Maani.

My examples:
 There are 9 boys in room 7: keru;railey;fereti;timote;tipene;leon;havea;stanley and davlyn
  There are ten colours in the rainbow:red;orange;yellow;green;light blue;dark blue and purple.

Brackets.
Miss Ashley’s example:

Mum gave Lucy (her favourite daughter) $10 for lunch.

Miss Ashley had 27 students (both girls and boys) in her class.

My examples:
 I ate ice cream ( cookies and cream)
  I had a cold drink ( lemonade)

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