The document discusses various punctuation marks - including commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, dashes, hyphens, colons, semicolons - and their different uses in writing. It provides examples of how each punctuation mark is used to link or offset specific words, phrases, clauses or numbers. The document also contains questions to check the reader's understanding of whether developed countries have complex highway networks and if shipping is one of the oldest forms of transport.

3. Question

10. help indicate something
about the structure of
sentences, or to assist
readers in knowing when to
change the rhythm or the
stress of their speaking.
Depending on the style of
writing and the language
used, punctuation may tend
towards one of these

11. Comma is used for a wide
range of different purposes
in punctuation. In general,
it is considered necessary
stylistically to have all
commas in a sentence serve
the same function, to avoid
confusion on the part of the

12. Apostrophe may be used
as punctuation within a
word to indicate an omitted
letter, as in contractions
such as don’t or e’er. It may
also be used to show that
a noun is possessive, such
as in Harry’s name or the
Seven Seas’ unrelenting

13. Quotation marks are
used as punctuation to
denote quotations within
text, or to offset a word
or phrase as being an
ironic or non-standard
usage. The most
common type of

14. Dashes are used for a
number of different
purposes, often to link
specific things together.
A figure dash is used to
link numbers together,
such as in a phone
number. An en dash is
used to link things that

15. Hyphens
are punctuation marks
which look similar to
dashes, but are shorter,
and are used to join
compound words which
haven’t yet become
independent words or

16. Colon is a unit
of punctuation typically used
to introduce a subsequent
sentence that is in some way
logically linked to the
preceding sentence.
Therefore, one may find
colons serving
as punctuation to introduce a
list, to offset something that is
a consequence of the fact

17. Semicolon is a unit
of punctuation used to
link two independent
clauses. It is usually used
where a period is thought
to create too strong a
break between the

18. It is used for a number of
It is used for a number of
different purposes, often to
different purposes, often to
link specific things together.
link specific things together.
It is used as punctuation to
It is used as punctuation to
denote quotations within text,
denote quotations within text,
or to offset a word or phrase
or to offset a word or phrase
as being an ironic or non-
as being an ironic or non-
standard usage.
standard usage.

19. Das
Das
h
h

20. Quotatio
n marks

23. Is shipping one of the
Is shipping one of the
oldest forms of
oldest forms of
transport?
transport?
Yes No

24. Correct

25. Incorrect

26. Do all developed
Do all developed
countries have complex
countries have complex
networks of multi-lane
networks of multi-lane
highways?
highways?
Yes No

27. Correct

28. Incorrect

29. Activity 1

30. Directio
Directio
n
n
Writing sentences from vocabulary to create word picture.

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32. Activity 2

33. Directio
Directio
n
n
Imagine that you are the owner of
the industry. Then the customer
from Australia order the product
and you have to decide the way to
transport the product and explain.

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