Punctuation For Beginners (1962)

[Music] this is our school not far from here is a busy street in our town there are buses on the street the sign on this bus says 10th and Jackson here is another sign J Allen that's the name of the owner of the grocery store he uses an initial for his first name the period after the capital J is a Mark we call a punctuation mark try our apple pie when we write a sentence that tells something we end it with a period do you have the right time in an asking sentence like this we always end with a question mark yes we can find punctuation marks all around us we'll learn learn more about punctuation as we visit Miss Anderson's class today we have been using our cards to help us with our sentences and punctuation we have been learning about asking and telling sentences Mary will you read your card she'll have a white kitten this sentence tells something we usually drop our voice at the end of a telling sentence and come to a stop Jill has a white kitten will you read the sentence again Mary go ahead and try Jill has a white Kit that's fine thank you when we write a sentence like this one what kind of punctuation mark do we use at the end do you think you have the right punctuation mark Muriel yes I do that's right a telling sentence ends with a period let's look at another telling sentence Sally please bring your sentence to the board I like to go swimming do you have the right punctuation mark Billy yes it's a telling sentence it says that I like to go swimming and I do miss Anderson so do I Billy now in this sentence that tells about swimming the period tells us we have completed the thought and we should come to a stop now how can we change the this telling sentence into an asking sentence first we'll change the beginning of the sentence what's the next thing we must doation what punctuation shall we use Betty I have a question mark Now read the sentence Betty do you like to go swimming now listen carefully do you like to go swimming suppose you read it now do you like to go swimming yes the question mark tells us to bring our voice up at the end of an asking sentence and come to a stop now we've seen the class using the question mark and period in sentences there are some other ways in which we use periods but now we're going to learn about another use for the period does anyone have a card with a man's name on it June sometimes we make this word Mis shorter by spelling it differently who has a card with this word spelled differently bring your card up to the chalkboard please yes this is another way of spelling Miss we call it an abbreviation but when we spell it this way what do we need here do you know Bobby that's right we use a period a period here doesn't mean that we stop here instead the period shows that we have shortened the word in a special way in an abbreviation the period is another kind of punctuation we place a period after an abbreviation let's see where else we can use a period who has a card with a full name on it suppose you bring your card up Millie sometimes we don't want to write out our middle names so we use only the first letter of the name and place a period after it the period period here doesn't show a stop it shows we are writing an initial the first letter of a name initial we might want to use an initial for our first name too t followed by a period stands for Thomas E Period stands for Edward now miss Anderson is getting ready to show her class A few important way way of using this punctuation mark a comma what do we call this punctuation mark class let's see where we use it let's add another word at the beginning now listen to me read it Tom Jill has a white kitten did you hear me pause here I paused to separate Tom from the rest of the sentence to show such a pause we use a comma when we place this word at the end of a sentence we also use a comma in front of it to show a pause Jill has a white kitten Tom we also place a comma after a word such as well when it comes at the beginning of a sentence to separate it from the rest of the sentence well Jill has a white kitten now let's see another way we can use commas will you bring your cards to the board please Sally we eat apples oranges and bananas we eat apples oranges and bananas when we have words that follow one another such as apples oranges and bananas we call this a series we use commas to separate words in a series they show where we pause as we read we eat apples oranges and bananas there's still another way we use commas does anyone have a card with the name of a city and state and who has a card with a date on Tommy and John please bring your cards up sometimes we must separate two names written together like this we place a comma between the names the comma separates the two words and helps us to read them Chicago Illinois these numbers don't make much sense and they're difficult to read now when we separate them with a comma we can read them July 4 1776 there are still many other ways we will learn to use punctuation marks but now let's look once again at the examples we had today we used a period after an abbreviation we used a period after an initial we used a period after a telling sentence we used a question mark after an asking sentence we used a comma here before a name at the end of a sentence we used a comma after the word will when it appeared at the beginning of a sentence we used a comma here and another one here to show where we paused in a series we used a comma between the names of a city and a state we used a comma in a date between the day and the year there are more ways to use commas and there are other punctuation marks too such as this one so the lesson isn't over yet in the days to come you'll be learning more and more about punctuation