PUNCTUATION

Summary of Punctuation Marks
Click on the link for each punctuation mark to find out more.
Punctuation Mark
Name
Example

full stop or period
I like English.

comma
I speak English, French and Thai.

semi-colon
I don't often go swimming; I prefer to play tennis.

colon
You have two choices: finish the work today or lose the contract.

hyphen
This is a rather out-of-date book.

dash
In each town—London, Paris and Rome—we stayed in youth hostels.

question mark
Where is Shangri-La?

exclamation mark
"Help!" she cried. "I'm drowning!"

slash, forward slash or oblique
Please press your browser's Refresh/Reload button.

backslash
C:\Users\Files\jse.doc
double quotation marks
"I love you," she said.
single quotation marks
'I love you,' she said.
apostrophe
This is John's car.
underline
Have you read War and Peace?
underscore
bin_lad@cia.gov
round brackets
I went to Bagkok (my favourite city) and stayed there for two weeks.
square brackets
The newspaper reported that the hostages [most of them French] had been released.
ellipsis mark
One happy customer wrote: "This is the best program...that I have ever seen."

VOCABULARY

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/annex

an·nex
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(-nks, nks)
tr.v. an·nexed, an·nex·ing, an·nex·es
1. To append or attach, especially to a larger or more significant thing.
2. To incorporate (territory) into an existing political unit such as a country, state, county, or city.
3. To add or attach, as an attribute, condition, or consequence.
n. (nks, nks)
1. A building added on to a larger one or an auxiliary building situated near a main one.
2. An addition, such as an appendix, that is made to a record or other document.

upper-case letter, uppercase, capital
lower-case letter, lowercase, small capital or small cap

EXERCISES

1 - TENSES
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/mix.htm

2 - PAST TNESE
http://www.english-room.com/pasttense_6a.htm

3 -SIMPLE PAST PAST CONTINUOUS
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs3.htm

4 - WILL BE GOING TO
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs18.htm

5 - Wh Questions
http://www.english-4u.de/question_words_ex1.htm

6 -WHO WHOM

7 - USED TO
http://www.inglesvip.com/exercises/used-to-to-be-used-to-2.html

8 - USED TO
http://www.inglesonline.com.br/exerciciosdeinglesonline/used-simple-present.htm

9 - PREPOSITIONSOF TIME
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/time_prepositions_1.htm

THERE BE

http://www.inglesvip.com/grammar/verb-there-to-bepresent-tense.html


Affirmative form
singular …….there is … há , existe
Ex: There is a woman in the car.
.
plural ………there are… há , existem
Ex: There are two women in the car.
.
Observação: O verbo muda de There is para there are de acordo com o seu complemento:woman é singular e two women é plural.
.
Você também poderá usar a forma contraída there’s e there’re.
Exs: There’s a woman in the car.
There’re two women in the car.
.
Negative form
singular… there is not…. não há, não existe
Ex: There is not a beach in this place.
.
plural…… there are not … não há , não existem
Ex: There are not beaches in this place.
Você também poderá usar a forma contraída There isn’t e there aren’t.
Exs:
There isn’t a beach in this place.
There aren’t beaches in this place.
.
Interrogative form
singular ….is there…?….. há…? existe…?
ex:Is there a Portuguese teacher in the classroom?
No, there isn’t. There is an English teacher.
plural ……are there…?….. há…? existem…?existem…?
Ex: How many students are there in the classroom?
Resuminho:
There to be ( presente, passado e futuro)
Para dizer “haver” no sentido de existir, em inglês usa-se a expressão:
There + uma forma de to be.
No presente:
afirmativa
singular – there is
plural – there are
.
negativa
singular – there is not ( there isn’t)
plural - there are not ( there aren’t)
.
interrogativa
singular – Is there...?
plural – Are there…?
.
No passado:
.
afirmativa
singular – There was
plural – There were
.
negativa
singular-there was not ( there wasn’t)
plural - there were not ( there weren’t)
.
interrogativa
singular – Was there …?
plural - Were there...?
.
No futuro
.
afirmativa
there will be
.
negativa
there will not be ( there won’t)
.
interrogativa
Will there be...?
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