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    Punctuations By  Eguriase S. M. Okaka   Punctuations are marks in written language inserted to separate various parts of a sentence or clause or phrase, and all, in relation to stress of meaning, rules of grammar, laws of punctuation , et cetera.   Punctuation  is very important to all examination students, because, in written examinations, the examiners penalize the omissions of them.   The different kinds of punctuation in English Language among other ones include: apostrophe, comma, colon, semi-colon, dash, hyphen, full stop, exclamation, question mark, and quotation mark.   APOSTROPHE Apostrophe (‘) is the punctuation mark which indicates possession or the possessive case. In reference to singular words, apostrophe is used with “s” and usually it comes before the “s” as in the following: A boy’s ball or the teacher’s key. But in context of plural words with “s”, apostrophes normally come after the “s” to indicate ...

  Sentences, Phrases and Clauses                                                   By  Eguriase S. M. Okaka A sentence is a group of words that makes a complete sense, conveys a message and expresses an ideology. A sentence more or less makes its complete sense by containing a verb um  the finite verb. That is, the action or doing word that defines the word-sense in a sentence. For a start, let’s consider the following expressions or group of words: ·         At the zoo. ·         We sat down. ·         That beautiful girl smiling at us. ·         When I was a child. ·         I used to act like a child. Now, which of the above groups of w...