Capital letters and full stops
I can use capital letters and full stops.
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Years 1 and 2 · English
Capital letters and full stops: I can use capital letters and full stops.
Here is a sentence: Sam has a big dog.
The first word, Sam, starts with a capital S.
It ends with a dot: a full stop.
Picture: The sentence "Sam has a big dog.", with "Sam" and the full stop underlined.
Oops! This one has no capital and no full stop.
Add a full stop after mat.
Now make the first letter a capital.
Picture: The sentence "The cat sat on the mat.", with a full stop added after "mat" and "The" given a capital letter.
Your turn: Dad has a hat. Tap the full stop at the end.
Picture: The sentence "Dad has a hat."
Tap the right word.
Answer
The answer: full stop
The full stop is the dot after hat.
Words to know
- capital letter:
- A big letter, like the T in Tom.
- full stop:
- A little dot that ends a sentence.
- sentence:
- Words that go together and make sense.
- name:
- What a person, a place or a day is called.
- finger space:
- The gap between two words, as wide as your finger.
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