1. PUNCTUATION

3. Eg. The Olympics were held in Barcelona in 1992.

4. Also used in abbreviations:

7. Eg. Jawaharlal Nehru, who was our first Prime Minister, had great love for children

8. To separate quoted sentences

9. Eg. He said, “I am sorry.”

10. To separate day and date, and date and year.

13. Used to introduce a list. Eg. The major tragedies of Shakespeare are:Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and Othello

22. For names of people, places, mountains, rivers

23. For nations and nationality

24. For names of days, months, festivals and historical eras

25. At the beginning of a sentence that is put in quotes eg. He said, “This is a good book.”

26. At the beginning of every line of poetry