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00:00punctuation marks
00:04capital letter and full stop
00:08Look at the following sentence
00:10The girl is playing the piano
00:13Now notice the beginning and the end of the sentence
00:18Here the word the starts with a capital letter
00:22because it is the first word in the sentence
00:27The sentence also ends with a full stop
00:30because it states clearly what the girl is doing now
00:34Thus we say that a sentence begins with a capital letter
00:39and ends with a full stop
00:44The pronoun I is written in a capital letter
00:48wherever it appears
00:51For example
00:53Amit and I are brothers
00:58A proper noun always begins with a capital letter
01:04For example
01:06She gave the book to Kamlesh
01:09Here the word Kamlesh is a proper noun
01:13as it is the name of the person
01:17?
01:21Now look at this sentence
01:24How many cookies did you eat?
01:27This is a question
01:30Notice the symbol used at the end of the sentence
01:35It is called a question mark
01:38A sentence that asks a question ends with a question mark
01:46Let us look at a few examples
01:49What color is the dog?
01:52Will you play with me?
02:01Look at the following sentence
02:04My favorite fruits are apple and banana
02:09Here there are only two items to list
02:14apple and banana
02:17Now look at the following sentence
02:20My favorite fruits are apple, banana and strawberry
02:27Here there are more than two items in the list
02:30So we use a comma for separating them
02:35Thus we say
02:37comma is used to separate three or more words in a list
02:43Comma is also used after introductory words
02:47such as yes, no, well, hello, etc
02:55For example
02:57Hello, how are you doing?
03:01It is also used for giving a short pause in a sentence
03:07For example
03:10A lot of people, young and old, rich and poor, met the saint!
03:22Look at the given sentences
03:26Wow! What a cute baby!
03:30Alas! The cat is dead!
03:34Now notice the symbol used in the sentences
03:39It is called an exclamation mark
03:45We use exclamation mark at the end of a word or a sentence
03:50to show strong feelings such as surprise, anger or joy