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Punctuation Detective

You are going to use your skills to tell me exactly what punctuation you can find in these sentences. You will set your work out like this:

In this sentence I have found two commas, a semi-colon and an exclamation mark.

Mark went to the shop; then the park to meet Gary, Paul, Bob and Spot (but he wouldn't share his sweets!)

Commas

Semi-colons

Colons

Dashes

Question Marks

Hyphens

Speech Marks

Apostrophes

Exclamation Marks

You are looking for all the punctuation marks listed in the box above. Good Luck!

  • "What a brilliant joke!" said Peter
  • She said nervously, "I'm just a harmless pupil. Why are you trying to confuse me with all this grammar?"
  • "The cabin's on fire! The ship's going to -" Abruptly, all fell silent.
  • My Granada keeps ferrets; my grandmother poisonous snakes.
  • At yesterday's assembly, Mrs Farrall said that she was particularly pleased with the table manners at lunchtime; that the school had won their netball match and that the behaviour in the yard had improved.
  • Mr Pitchford was pleased that all the class were up-to-date.
  • Many workers were late this morning: the fog caused delays on the road.

Extension

You have to write a passage from a story (about anything you want.) Your work will be marked according to the number of punctuation marks you use correctly in your passage.