FULL STOPS

1. FULL STOPS EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT

2. FULL STOP – STRONGEST PUNCTUATION MARK • It makes a definite pause. • Used at the end of all sentences that are NOT questions or exclamation. • A sentence is a word or group of words, which makes complete sense on its own.

3. SENTENCE EXAMPLES • The witch stirred the cauldron. • Stop. • Hello. • Sentences usually have a noun and a verb but they can, sometimes, consist of only one word.

4. Remember Capital Letters When you have used a full stop to end a sentence, remember to start the next sentence with a capital letter.

5. NO FULL STOPS NEEDED: • Notices  • Lists  • Labels 

6. Days of the week: Sat. 14th Sun. 30th Months: Feb. 16th Nov. 12th Titles Prof. – Professor Rev. – Reverend Use a full stop to shorten: Therefore: Wednesday 21st April becomes ______________________ Friday 9th December becomes _______________________

7. SHORTENING WORDS USING FULL STOPS • Instead of writing some words in full you can cut them short, or “abbreviate” them, by just writing some of the letters, or just the first (initial) letters. • A full stop is used to show where letters have been left out, words shortened, or after initials.

8. USE FULL STOPS HERE: • People’s names are often written as initials. • Joanna Jane Johnson • Shortened to: J.J.Johnson • Do NOT use Full Stop here: • UN  United Nations • USA  United States of America

9. If an abbreviation comes at the end of a sentence, you don’t need to use two full stops. • EXAMPLE: • They bought the dog from the S.S.P.C.A.

10. This is a very long sentence which does not make any sense. Can you put it right? There should be 5 full stops. He trudged wearily along the dusty road his feet hurt and his head throbbed there was not a soul in sight for miles and he wondered what to do next then he saw someone waving at him at the top of the hill it was a tall man in a large hat

11. THREE FULL STOPS…(Ellipses) • You can use three full stops where part of a quotation or text is left out. • “Jack and Jill went up the hill… and Jill come tumbling after.”

12. Three Full Stops(Ellipses) • You can also use three full stops to show where a sentence is unfinished. • “He hid behind the gravestone and…”

14. It makes a definite pause • Strongest punctuation mark • Used at the end of all sentences that are NOT questions or exclamation. • Three full stops…(Ellipses) • You can use three full stops where part of a quotation or text is left out. • You can also use three full stops to show where a sentence is unfinished. • Instead of writing some words in full you can cut them short, or “abbreviate” them, by just writing some of the letters, or just the first (initial) letters. • A full stop is used to show where letters have been left out, words shortened, or after initials.

15. Use a full stop to shorten days of the week, months of the year, peoples’ names and titles. • If an abbreviation comes at the end of a sentence, you don’t need to use two full stops. • You don’t need full stops in lists, notices or labels.

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