Using Punctuations

Punctuations are marks or symbols that used in sentences and paragraph for various different needs. Using punctuations can also change the entire meaning of a sentence. Examples of punctuations are full-stop, comma, semi-colon, apostrophe, question mark and so on. It’s is important for every beginner to understand how to use punctuations in sentences. Let’s have a look at the same in this post.
Uses of Full-stop:
1. To end a sentence, speech or a statement. For example: Maria bought booster chair for her kid online.
2. To separate letters in an acronym. For example: P.T.O meaning Please Turn Over.
Uses of Question mark:
1. Question mark is used to end a question. For example: Do you know where I can find quality seating for baby room?
2. Also used to indicate something that is uncertain. For example: You bought children’s furniture online, isn’t it?
Uses of Exclamation mark:
1. At the end of a sentence that signifies surprise, shock, grief or dismay. For example: Wow! You can buy booster chair for kids at affordable prices online. Ah! The seating for baby room that she bought last month is broken.
Uses of Comma:
1. To separate things or words in a listing. For example: Vividha, Chicco, Owen etc are some of the best brands of children’s furniture .
2. To combine two sentences. For example: I hardly have time to go for shopping, so I bought seating for baby room of my child online.
3. To bring pause in a sentence. For example: Over the years, online shopping has become a trend.
Uses of Semi-colon:
1. To combine two independent clauses. For example: I am working lady; I buy stuffs for my baby online.
Uses of Apostrophe:
1. To signify ownership. For example: Disney’s baby products have good name in the market.
2. To show contraction. For example: Who is as Who’s’.
These are the uses of some of the most common punctuations along with examples.

Rules for using hyphens and dashes

Hyphen and dash are two popular punctuation marks commonly used in sentences and conversations. These two punctuation marks are mostly mistaken and used incorrectly. There are some rules that need to be followed in order to use hyphen and dash correctly. Let’s have a look at the same in this post.

Hyphen: A hyphen is a short line that is used to connect two parts of a word.
For example:
• Pick-me-up after you complete your shopping of kids’ seating furniture .
• The blue-eyed girl was buying some children’s furniture from the shop.

Dash: A dash is longer that hyphen. Dashes are used to signify a break in a thought or a sentence.
For example:
• She came to my place – dressed herself in jeans and then went to buy some kids’ seating furniture  for her child.
• Let her think – she hardly has brains to do so.
Let’s have a look at some of the rules of hyphen:

Hyphen is used to join words to indicate certain meaning by linking the two words. 
For example:
• After buying children’s furniture for my kid, I directly moved towards the race-course.
• Do you have the complete book-case of the author?
Hyphen can be used before nouns to make compound modifiers. 
For example:
• My one-year-old son needs a crib mattress .
• The well-known actor has passed away last year.
Hyphen can be used with prefixes such as ex, all, self etc. to convey certain meaning. 
For example:
• His ex-wife still cares for him.
• She needs to gain some self-confidence to move ahead in her career.
Hyphens are used while writing numbers and fractions. 
For example:
• Mary got married at the age of twenty-two.
• Two-third of her property is given away to charity.
Hyphens are used with suspended compounds. 
For example:
• I bought a crib mattress for my 1-year old son.
• She is fine with both full-time and part-time job.
These are some rules of using hyphens in sentences and conversations.

Making Sentences

Making Sentences One of the most common exercises that kids need to go through during their Basic English classes is making sentences. In such exercises, words are given using which one needs to make a meaning full sentence. Sentence is a group of words that conveys a complete meaning. While making sentences one can make different types of sentences such as affirmative sentences, negative sentences, interrogative sentences, exclamatory sentences and more. Let’s have a look at few exercises on making sentences.

 • Eating: Meera was eating Chinese food when I called her.
 • Drawing: Kitty’s daughter loves drawing.
 • Affordable: I buy bed sheets online at affordable price ranges.
 • Painter: Pablo Picasso is a renowned painter.
• Deeds: One’s future depends on the deeds of present.
• Teaches: She teaches children in a school.
• Humorous: He is not at all humorous.

Besides words, many a times, children are also asked to make sentences with phrases and idioms. While making sentences using phrases, one needs to understand the meaning and then make a sentence out of it.

Few examples are cited below:
• Make up your mind: Please make up your mind if you want to buy baby pillow online or from local stores.
 • Sick and tired: I was sick and tired searching for booster seats and finally I found an online baby store.
• Feel blue: Whenever I feel blue, I start playing with my child.
• Bored to death: I am bored to death. Let’s go to buy booster seats for my son.
 • Got to be kidding: Shopping baby pillow online at affordable prices. You got to be kidding me.
• Couch potato: Stop being a couch potato and go buy bed sheets for our baby.
• Now and then: I keep purchasing baby pillow online every now and then.
• On the dot: I don’t want to stay waiting, so better be on the dot.

Commas and its rules

Comma is one of the most commonly used punctuation marks in sentences. Commas are used to bring a small pause in a sentence. For example: Though I get <b> best kids’ pillow </b> at stores, I prefer buying them online. Commas are generally used to break sentences so that confusion in a communication is avoided. There are few rules that one needs to know and understand while using a comma. Let’s have a look at the same in this post.

Commas are used to separate words in a listing. For example:
• I am going to buy the best kids’ pillow for Ria, Rihana, Layana and Sophia.
• She bought car booster seat, play toy, dresses and many more stuffs for her baby.

Commas are used to separate two adjectives instead of using the conjunction ‘and’. For example:
• She bought some pretty, quality silk bed sheets.
• He is going to buy affordable, comfortable car booster seat .

Commas are used before or both before and after of a name to directly address that name in the sentence. For example:
• She is Ms. Deshmukh, the principal of this school.
• Yes, Kiara, I will buy those silk bed sheets for you.

Comma must not be used for dates when any part of the date is mission. For example:
• December 3 is her birthday.
• October 2013 is going to be the appraisal period.

Commas are used after a weak clause in the starting of a sentence. For example:
• If you are not sure about this, ask him.
• As you leave, please switch off the lights.

Commas are used to describe someone’s identity while talking about that person or place in a sentence. For example:
• Delhi, the national capital of India has become a house of crime.
• Disney, the popular kids’ brand brings to you good collection of baby toys.
These are some of the most commonly used rules of commas that one needs to follow while using it in a sentence or a conversation.

Apostrophe Rules

Apostrophe is one of the popularly used punctuation marks. Apostrophe is generally used to indicate ownership. For example: Maria’s printed bed sheets that she recently bought online are lovely. Apostrophe is also used with contractions. For example: Instead of who is going to buy kids seating for playroom one can also write it as who’s going to buy kids’ seating for playroom . While using apostrophe in a sentence, it is very essential to adhere to some apostrophe rules. Let’s have a look at some of these in this post.

Rule 1: The apostrophe is used to indicate missing letters in a word. For example: Can’t you buy printed bed sheets online003F`

Rule 2: Apostrophe is used before ‘s’ to show possession of a singular form. For example: Mohan’s bike is very costly.

Rule 3: Apostrophe usage can be ignored when a word ends with the letter ‘s’. For example: Ms. Jones’ daughter is exploring booster seat India collection for last few days.

Rule 4: Apostrophe must not be used after the plural of a name. For example: The Changs have two shops where you can find booster seat India collections.

Rule 5: Apostrophe is used at end of a compound-noun. For example: My mother-in-law’s health keeps fluctuating.

Rule 6: If a possession is defined for two people or places, the apostrophe must be place at the end of second person or place. For example: Mira and Rohan’s house is right next to a restaurant.

Rule 7: Apostrophe must not be used with possessive pronouns. For example: This bag is hers and not yours.

Rule 8: Apostrophe is used for possessive pronoun ‘its’ when it is used as contraction for ‘it is’ or ‘it has’. For example: It’s been raining since morning. These are some of the most common rules of apostrophe that one needs to follow while using it in word or a phrase.

English grammar

 I have already shared with you many a learning till now. For today let's learn something on verbs. Let's learn on verb phrase:

A verb is that says something about the noun.


Next time i will help you with helping verbs.

This was a help with your learn English Grammar Rules online.

Do post your comments.

Tenses help

Today i will share with you help on English tenses and i am sure you will like this learning.

English tenses is based on the action of time. There are three tenses in English:

• Present tense
• Past tense
• Future tense

Next writing i will share with you about adjective and provide you examples of adjectives.

Do post your comments.