Fill in the Punctuation
This is an exercise in correcting a piece of text which has no punctuation. The children will need to know what the different types of punctation are, and when to use them before carrying out this activity.
The text can be found below and you are welcome to print and photocopy it for use in the classroom.
The children should rewrite the text in their books making sure that they include the correct punctuation. The following pieces of punctuation need to be used:
This is the correct version of the text:
Morris the Martian was flying around the Solar System one day, when he saw a strange light in front of him.
What is that? he thought to himself. Morris was scared, but he flew a little bit closer so that he could see it better. "Hello," he called out. There was no reply.
"Hello. Is anyone there?" he called, but again there was no reply. Suddenly a creature appeared in front of the light.
"BOO!" it shouted. Poor Morris was really scared and he flew off home and hid under his bed.
Comments
Suzie C
28th March 2013
Thank you!!!!!
Roxy
8th September 2013
Great! To extend the higher achievers, I will not show the different sentences, but leave them to do it themselves. Thank you.
lapins
13th October 2013
Thank you a good resource to supplement SPAG
Lee
21st February 2014
Here's a sign we created for our Modern Safety signs humour series. You are welcome to use it.See the rest here; https://www.esedirect.co.uk/art...
Anonymous
29th April 2016
Thank you x
Blaze
9th January 2017
Thank You for this, it really helped me out specially that i have an exam about this XOXO
krizza
24th July 2017
thank you! very useful
Alex Sainz
27th December 2017
"Suddenly" is an adverb. It's being used as an introduction to the sentence, so it should be followed by a comma. Is that right?
Andrey
1st February 2018
Thank you very much
Samra Raja
9th June 2019
Thnk u
Zainab
12th June 2019
Its really help me
Thank alot
Hetal Lalan
15th November 2019
Thanks
teide
3rd December 2019
Great exercise, thanks so much
Jaswant shah
16th August 2020
Thanks
Salman Hakeem
25th November 2020
Thanks you!