mark abbreviations, titles and initials. (e.g. Dr. P.Rukmangadhan, M.S.) c) Sentences that ask something end with a question mark.
d) Sentences that express excitement or strong feelings end with an exclamatory mark. e) Capitalization: the first letter of the first word in each line of poetry (normally) the single-letter word ‘I’ proper nouns initials, abbreviations and acronyms names of months of the year, days of the week, and holidays names of gods and specific deities words that refer to religious figures and holy books titles preceding a person’s name titles applied to one particular person names of places, cities, states, countries, districts, towns, villages, streets, roads and buildings adjectives derived from places names of races, religions, nationalities, languages and geographical names the words ‘east, west, north and south’ when they refer to a section of a country names of institutions, organisations, clubs, associations, brand names of products and business firms the first words and all other major words in titles of stories, articles, poems, plays, essays, books and magazines f) Uses of Comma: (‘comma’ indicates a brief pause) to separate a series of words of the same class in the same sentence after the words ‘yes’, ‘no’ and ‘well’ when they start a sentence after an introductory phrase or clause before the question tags at the end of the statements or imperatives they are attached to to denote the omission of a word, especially a verb before coordinating conjunctions (and, yet/but, or/otherwise, so/ otherwise, nor) in compound sentences g) Use of Semi-colon: links two independent clauses without a co-ordinating conjunction instead of a full-stop, to denote that the sentences are somewhat connected h) Uses of Colon: used to separate two independent clauses, when the second explains, 12th - - Appendix Page illustrates or follows from the first. Never use a colon after a sentence fragment. to introduce a list before a quotation, and sometimes before direct speech i) Uses of