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        |  начать обучение At the end of a sentence we put a full stop (.) after a statement or imperative.  |  |   We'll go for a walk now. But bring your coat.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение At the end of a sentence we put a question mark (?) after a question.  |  |   Do you want to go to Hyde Park? Shall we look at the shops first? Are they open on Saturdays?  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение At the end of a sentence we put an exclamation mark (!) after an exclamation.  |  |   Look what I've got! What a fantastic dress!  |  |  | 
|   We write a capital letter (a big letter)   начать обучение e.g.We... or But... Hyde Park. Saturday. I. |  |   at the beginning of a sentence. at the beginning of each word in a name and days and months, but not in other nouns. for the word I.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We use a semi-colon (;) between to main clauses when the second main clause is not linked grammatically to the first.  |  |   The farmer and his sons start work at six o'clock every morning; they have to get up early because there is always so much to do.  |  |  | 
|   We put a comma usually between two main clauses before but, and or or, but only if the second clause has a subject (e.g. he).   начать обучение We use a comma to show a shorter pause than a semi-colon (;) or a full stop (.). The rules about commas aren't very definite. We can often choose whether to put a comma or not. |  |   He looked for the key, but he couldn't find it. He looked for the key but couldn't find it.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma after a sub clause.  |  |   When I saw the photo, I laughed.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma after a reported clause.  |  |   The questions were easy, Alan said.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma around a non-defining relative clause.  |  |   Mr Sims, who lives opposite, is ninety-six.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma not usually before a sub clause.  |  |   I laughed when I saw the photo.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma not before a reported clause.  |  |   Alan said (that) the questions were easy.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma not before a question word or that.  |  |   We all saw what happened.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma not with a defining relative clause.  |  |   The man who lives opposite is ninety-six.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma not before an infinitive.  |  |   The police came to the house to ask him some questions.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma sometimes after an adverb phrase but not usually before it.  |  |   On Thursday afternoon, they all went out together. They all went out together on Thursday afternoon.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma usually around a phrase in apposition.  |  |   Mr Reid, the owner of the company, lives near Southport.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma usually around a linking word.  |  |   The food, however, was good.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma usually after or before a linking word or sentence adverb.  |  |   On the other hand, we need a quick decision. We could go to Tunisia, for example. Actually, I'm a liberal. It won't be easy, of course.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma usually before please and after yes or no.  |  |   Have you got the number, please? Yes, I have.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma before or after the name of a person we are speaking or writing to.  |  |   Have you seen this, Pat? Dear Mr Bright, Thank you for your letter.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We put a comma in a list of more than two things.  |  |   Inside the room there was a table, two chairs, a lamp and a television set.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We use quotation marks ("...") before and after direct speech. We usually put a comma before or after the direct speech.  |  |   David said, "It's time to go now". "It's time to go now, " David said/said David.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We use the apostrophe in the possessive form of nouns.  |  |   These are my girl-friend's records.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We use the apostrophe in short forms.  |  |   Chris isn't thirty. He's only twenty-five.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We can use a short form only if the word is unstressed. We do not use short forms with yes or when a word is stressed.  |  |   Yes, we have. We really have had nice weather.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We can use short forms after a pronoun.  |  |  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We can use short forms sometimes after a noun.  |  |  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We can use short forms sometimes after a question word.  |  |  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We can use short forms after there and that.  |  |  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We can use short forms for is after here.  |  |  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We can use short forms for not after an auxiliary or modal verb.  |  |  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We use short forms when we write down an informal conversation or in informal writing  |  |   e.g. in a letter or a postcard to a friend.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение When we use the short form, we leave out part of the word we are writing. We put an apostrophe (') instead of the missing part and we write the two words together as one.  |  |   'm=am; 've=have; won't=will not; 're=are; 'd=had/would; n't=not; 's=is/has; 'll=will/shall.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение Sometimes there are alternative short forms.  |  |   e.g. it is not > it isn't/it's not. They will not > they won't/they'll not.  |  |  | 
|   We write some compound nouns as two words, some with a hyphen and some as one word.   начать обучение The rules about hyphens aren't very definite. |  |   That's a police dog. I've rung the police-station. Here's a policeman.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We normally use a hyphen in compound adjectives.  |  |   There's a three-mile-long tunnel.  |  |  | 
|  начать обучение We often use a hyphen after a prefix.  |  |   Don't over-fill the tank. We can re-use these bottles.  |  |  |