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Separate the Sentences



Reading is easier when related sentences make up paragraphs. Capital letters and punctuation marks show where sentences start and stop.

In the paragraphs below, the ending punctuation and beginning capital letters have been left out. Find the sentences and separate them by beginning capital letters and ending punctuation marks.

Separate Three Sentences: Use periods and capital letters between sentences.

Tanya Smith is a bubbly, busy fifth grader she has curly hair, and her braces shine in the sun when she smiles she would like to be a lawyer some day


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Separate Four Sentences: Use periods and capital letters between sentences.

When Princess Dou Wan died in China about two thousand years ago, people covered her body with a suit of jade, a hard gemstone then they buried her in a tomb near the capital, Beijing the Chinese thought jade would preserve the body forever it didn't, but the suit survives


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Separate Five Sentences: Use periods and capital letters between sentences. Punctuate one sentence with an !. (This mark is on the same key as the number 1.)

A black bear tramps through the tangled underbrush, warmed by the late summer sun trees shade the bear, and thick fur protects it from pricks and scratches from time to time, it pauses to sniff the air at last, the large animal stops it has found what it has been searching for -- a feast of berries


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Separate Six Sentences: Use periods and capital letters between sentences.

If you have a spider as a house guest treat it well in Greek mythology, a girl named Arachne challenged the goddess Athena to a weaving contest and won jealous, the goddess turned Arachne into a spider Athena later felt guilty and took the spider under her protection to this day, those who protect spiders are said to be rewarded those who don't are punished


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Now you type a paragraph with at least three sentences. When you finish, go back and take out the ending punctuation and beginning capital letters. Then have your partner or a friend add the punctuation and capital letters again.

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Name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.)

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