Punctuation Challenge

Write grammatically correct punctuated sentences. No substitution of correct spelling for punctuation marks allowed. How few sentences will it take to use all of the following punctuation marks:

  1. capital letter
  2. full stop
  3. exclamation mark
  4. question mark
  5. comma
  6. apostrophe
  7. quotation marks (speech marks)
  8. brackets
  9. colon
  10. semicolon
  11. slash

Is it possible to write one sentence using all of the punctuation marks?

Write your sentences and check off the punctuation marks below. The first sentence is an example.

Sentence

Punctuation marks used

“Hello,” Bob greeted his friends.

1,2,5,7

“Hello! My name is Max. What is your name?”asked the boy.

1, 2, 3, 4, 7

A dog walked up to the man and whined (because he was hungry).

1, 2, 8

Isaac and Marcus were doing tables and Marcus said to Isaac “What is 5 x 6? Then Isaac replied “I don’t know ask someone else”? Then Marcus asked Paul what 5 x 6 is then Paul said “12” then a boy named Thomas said “No, Paul 5 x 6 = 30 not 12.

4, 2, 1, 5, 7,

This is Max’s toy bone.

6, 1, 2

“Why are you so late!” Shouted the teacher.

3, 7, 1, 2

“Here is the date”. 31/7/2020

1, 2, 7, 11

Before I publish my work I need to check if I did it correct: make sure that it is the right spelling, proof read it, getting feedback, and making sure doing the right punctuation.

2, 1, 9, 6, 5,

Dad is getting bald; his hair is getting thinner and thinner.

10, 2, 1