Introduction to Punctuation: English Grammar for Children

📝 Punctuation is used in writing to help the reader understand the meaning of a sentence.

🔡 Periods mark the end of a sentence, while exclamation points show strong feelings or excitement.

🧩 Understanding common types of punctuation is important for correctly interpreting written text.

🔑 Question marks indicate the end of questions.

🖊️ Commas are used to indicate a pause and separate items in a list.

👋 Commas are also used to separate introductory words, clauses, and phrases.

📝 Commas are used to separate quotations from the rest of a sentence.

📍 Quotation marks are used to indicate that a sentence or phrase is being written exactly as it was originally said or written.

🔠 Apostrophes can be used in contractions to show missing letters and to indicate possession.