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At the end of a sentence we put a full stop (.) after a statement or imperative. empezar lección
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We'll go for a walk now. But bring your coat.
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At the end of a sentence we put a question mark (?) after a question. empezar lección
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Do you want to go to Hyde Park? Shall we look at the shops first? Are they open on Saturdays?
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At the end of a sentence we put an exclamation mark (!) after an exclamation. empezar lección
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Look what I've got! What a fantastic dress!
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We write a capital letter (a big letter) e.g.We... or But... Hyde Park. Saturday. I. empezar lección
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at the beginning of a sentence. at the beginning of each word in a name and days and months, but not in other nouns. for the word I.
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We use a semi-colon (;) between to main clauses when the second main clause is not linked grammatically to the first. empezar lección
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The farmer and his sons start work at six o'clock every morning; they have to get up early because there is always so much to do.
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We put a comma usually between two main clauses before but, and or or, but only if the second clause has a subject (e.g. he). We use a comma to show a shorter pause than a semi-colon (;) or a full stop (.). The rules about commas aren't very definite. We can often choose whether to put a comma or not. empezar lección
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He looked for the key, but he couldn't find it. He looked for the key but couldn't find it.
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We put a comma after a sub clause. empezar lección
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When I saw the photo, I laughed.
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We put a comma after a reported clause. empezar lección
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The questions were easy, Alan said.
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We put a comma around a non-defining relative clause. empezar lección
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Mr Sims, who lives opposite, is ninety-six.
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We put a comma not usually before a sub clause. empezar lección
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I laughed when I saw the photo.
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We put a comma not before a reported clause. empezar lección
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Alan said (that) the questions were easy.
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We put a comma not before a question word or that. empezar lección
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We all saw what happened.
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We put a comma not with a defining relative clause. empezar lección
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The man who lives opposite is ninety-six.
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We put a comma not before an infinitive. empezar lección
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The police came to the house to ask him some questions.
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We put a comma sometimes after an adverb phrase but not usually before it. empezar lección
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On Thursday afternoon, they all went out together. They all went out together on Thursday afternoon.
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We put a comma usually around a phrase in apposition. empezar lección
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Mr Reid, the owner of the company, lives near Southport.
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We put a comma usually around a linking word. empezar lección
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The food, however, was good.
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We put a comma usually after or before a linking word or sentence adverb. empezar lección
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On the other hand, we need a quick decision. We could go to Tunisia, for example. Actually, I'm a liberal. It won't be easy, of course.
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We put a comma usually before please and after yes or no. empezar lección
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Have you got the number, please? Yes, I have.
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We put a comma before or after the name of a person we are speaking or writing to. empezar lección
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Have you seen this, Pat? Dear Mr Bright, Thank you for your letter.
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We put a comma in a list of more than two things. empezar lección
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Inside the room there was a table, two chairs, a lamp and a television set.
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We use quotation marks ("...") before and after direct speech. We usually put a comma before or after the direct speech. empezar lección
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David said, "It's time to go now". "It's time to go now, " David said/said David.
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We use the apostrophe in the possessive form of nouns. empezar lección
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These are my girl-friend's records.
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We use the apostrophe in short forms. empezar lección
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Chris isn't thirty. He's only twenty-five.
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We can use a short form only if the word is unstressed. We do not use short forms with yes or when a word is stressed. empezar lección
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Yes, we have. We really have had nice weather.
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We can use short forms after a pronoun. empezar lección
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We can use short forms sometimes after a noun. empezar lección
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We can use short forms sometimes after a question word. empezar lección
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We can use short forms after there and that. empezar lección
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We can use short forms for is after here. empezar lección
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We can use short forms for not after an auxiliary or modal verb. empezar lección
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We use short forms when we write down an informal conversation or in informal writing empezar lección
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e.g. in a letter or a postcard to a friend.
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When we use the short form, we leave out part of the word we are writing. We put an apostrophe (') instead of the missing part and we write the two words together as one. empezar lección
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'm=am; 've=have; won't=will not; 're=are; 'd=had/would; n't=not; 's=is/has; 'll=will/shall.
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Sometimes there are alternative short forms. empezar lección
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e.g. it is not > it isn't/it's not. They will not > they won't/they'll not.
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We write some compound nouns as two words, some with a hyphen and some as one word. The rules about hyphens aren't very definite. empezar lección
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That's a police dog. I've rung the police-station. Here's a policeman.
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We normally use a hyphen in compound adjectives. empezar lección
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There's a three-mile-long tunnel.
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We often use a hyphen after a prefix. empezar lección
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Don't over-fill the tank. We can re-use these bottles.
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