Lesson 5

Punctuation

— Don’t start with space in the beginning

— Make sure put space between word

— End every sentence with dot.

— End every question with question mark.

— Dot, coma, question marks come immediately after the last word and space after it.

— ------------------, ----------------------. --------------? ----------.

— Coma is used for splitting compound sentence, classifying information and also for extra information

— ---------------------------------, ------------------------, -----------.

— ---------, -----------, ------------, ------------ and ---------.

— He arrived in Baghdad, capital city of Iraq, to negotiate about the issue.

— Put quotes in quotation marks

— “-------------------------------------,” he said. Or “----------------------------.”

— “-------------------------… ---------------,” he said. This when put 1^st and 3^rd sentence and omitted the 2^nd.

— In partial quote, coma is not needed. ---------------- “hhhhh” ----------.

— For quote in title use ‘----------------------------------’

— Brackets are used for explanation like:

— ------------------- Sunday (July 26) -------------.

— “He (the prime minister) -------------------.”

— ---------------------- dolma (an Iraqi food)-----------.

— ----------------- dolma, an Iraqi food, ---------.

— ------------- Goran (or the Change) -------------.

— Italicize names of books, newspapers and titles.

— The writer published a new book named The Reality of Iraq

— Do not use underline and bold

— For numbers, from one to nine in word. From 10 above, in figure (digit)