Jumbled Words and Punctuation

 Jumbled words

• In jumbled words, there are words arranged in an incorrect way making no meaning.
• These words when arranged in a correct way give a meaning to the sentence.
• Apart from jumbled words, there are jumbled sentences also.

Some examples are:

1. Friends / best / good / a / one of / book / is / our

• A book is one of our best friends

2. Companions / highly patient and / it / cheerful of / is the

• It is the highly cheerful and patient of companions.

Exercises on jumbled words

1. Good manners / love / of others / win the / and / respect.
2. Best / when / one is / they can / young / be learnt
3. They / in life / are a / sure / for success / passport

Punctuations

• To improve clarity conventional characters are used which are called as punctuation.
• Example – Semicolons, commas, etc.
• Punctuations tell where to pause, which words or phrases are grouped together, etc.

The main characters of punctuation are

• Colons (:)
• Apostrophes (‘)
• Ellipses (…)
• Commas (,)
• Hyphen (-)
• Full stops (.)
• Quotation marks (“")
• Question marks (?)
• Semicolons (;)

Some Punctuation 

1.  Apostrophes

• Used to show the time expression

(Example – a day’s leave)

• Used in contractions

(Example – don’t, can’t)

2.  Colons

• Follows an introduction

(Example – I’ve witnessed the following: slime, rust and a rat)

• With quotations

(Example – he said: honesty is the best policy)

3.  Commas

• As parentheses

(Example- Ram and Rome, who live nearby, are my good friends)

• To separate the items

(Example – honey, butter, jam)

• In numbers

(Example – 6, 45,265)

4. Hyphen

• For joining words

(Example – two-sided coin)

• In compound noun to join words

(Example – cooking – oil, paper – clip)

5. Full stop

• End of a sentence

(Example – I like apples.)

• In abbreviations

(Example – B.Com, B.B.C)

6. Semicolons

• Used before the conjunction

(Example – today, it was, to our expectation, windy; but tomorrow, to our surprise, it will be clear.)

Recap

• In jumbled words, there are words arranged in an incorrect way making no meaning.
• These words when arranged in a correct way give a meaning to the sentence.
• Apart from jumbled words, there are jumbled sentences also.
• To improve clarity conventional characters are used which are called as punctuation.
• Punctuations tell where to pause, which words or phrases are grouped together, etc.