Дистанційне навчання 2020
PACE WORK (English) 17.03
Form 5
Тема:
Знаки пунктуації. Кома
Commas
with Salutations
Use
a comma if the sentence starts with an address to someone.
Example:
Greg, can I talk to you for a second?
Use
a comma with salutations in private letters.
Example:
Dear Francis,
Don’t
use a comma with salutations in business letters. Use a colon in American
English and no punctuation mark in British English.
Example:
BE – Dear Mr Jefferson
AE – Dear Mr. Jefferson:
Exercise 1.
1. Put in commas where necessary.
2. Simon have you got a second?
3. Caroline why didn't you go to the concert?
4. Phil and Angie dinner is ready.
5. Gareth could you mind my bag for a moment?
6. Dear Caren Thanks for the lovely evening. Love Marc
Commas
with Geographic Places
Use a comma to
separate parts of geographic places. The final comma is optional.
Example: Hollywood, Ireland(,) is not as famous as
Hollywood, California.
Use a comma to separate parts of an address in a
sentence.
Example: His address is 46 Baker Street, London, NW2
2LK, Great Britain.
Exercise 2.
Put in commas where necessary.
1. My friend is
from Bakersfield California.
2. He moved to London Canada recently.
3. Last year's meeting
took place in Geneva Switzerland.
4. My address is
76 Camptown Road Chicago IL 60710 United States.
5. Dickens House Museum is in 48
Doughty Street London WC 1 Great Britain.
Commas
with Numbers
Use commas to separate off the thousands and millions
in compound numbers.
Example: 3,460,759
Don’t use commas in decimals.
Example: $3.49
Use a comma before the year if the date is given as
follows: month, day, year.
Example: April 16, 2003
Don’t use a comma if only two elements of the date are
given (e.g. month and year).
Example: I was born in May 1972.
Exercise 5.
Write
the numbers as figures and place the commas correctly.
·
five
thousand, seven hundred -
·
eight
billion, fifty-seven million, six hundred and forty-three thousand, one hundred
and eight -
·
four
hundred and eighty-nine thousand, seven hundred and forty-eight -
Put
in commas where necessary.
He was born on October 20 1983.
The meeting on March 3 2003 had to be cancelled.
