Punctuation and Capital Letters

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Capital letters

Niet helemaal hetzelfde als in Nederlands.

When do you use
capital letters in English?

Capital letters in English

Start of a sentence    

• This is a book.
• She is called Sally.
• My brother is eighteen.

Capital letters in English

Days, months and public holidays (feestdagen).  

• Today is Friday.This year, Easter is in April.

Capital letters in English

Names of people, places, countries and nationalities.

• Her name is Sally.
• She lives in Paris.
• Sally comes from France, she is French.
• Sally's mother is Mrs Dubois.
• My cat is called Sam

Capital letters in English

               I = ik           is always a capital letter.

• I am a teacher.
• When I saw him, I was very happy.
• Next week, I'm going on holiday

Now it's your turn.

Schrijf de zinnen opnieuw met hoofdletters waar nodig.

my name is rick and i am a nurse.

on monday, mrs parker marked the tests.

our holiday starts on february 18th.

my favourite time of the year is christmas.

anne comes from dublin, she is irish.

Ik kan hoofdletters gebruiken in het Engels.

1. ja
2. nee

PUNCTUATION

Mind your punctuation!

Punctuation

Match the punctuation marks to their names. Write the number behind the name.

full stop ___

semicolon ___

comma ___

exclamation mark

colon ___

question mark ___

brackets ___

apostrophe ___

dash ___

hyphen ___

quotation marks

Punctuation

- Periods (or full stops).

- Question marks?

- Exlamation points!

- 'Quotation marks'.

- Semicolons ( ; ).

- Colons ( : ).

- Apostrophes.

- Commas

Punctuation

Susan, my sister, is seventeen years old.

Hand out punctuation worksheet