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All the punctuation

You learn to choose every mark in a sentence and put it in the right place.

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How to do the test

  1. Read the sentence aloud.
  2. Decide how it ends: it tells, asks or exclaims.
  3. Put commas in a list and after an opener.
  4. Put inverted commas around spoken words, with the mark inside them.

Put in all the punctuation. When the bell rang the children lined up

  1. Read it aloud: you pause after rang.
  2. The sentence tells us something, so it ends with a full stop.
  3. The opener is When the bell rang, so a comma follows it.
More examples

Put in all the punctuation. What a lovely surprise

  1. No other mark is needed in this sentence.
  2. It starts with What and shows strong feeling, so it ends with an exclamation mark.

Put in all the punctuation. I am hungry said Mia

  1. The sentence ends with a full stop.
  2. The speaker comes after the spoken words, so a comma goes inside the inverted commas.