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Punctuation—The Period (.)
Concept sheet | English Language Arts
Grade
1-3
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Period Uses
Periods are used to:
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indicate the end of a sentence.
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organize information or ideas into separate sentences.
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avoid long and confusing sentences.
The period at the end of a sentence indicates a pause, when reading or speaking.
Any word following a period is always capitalized.
To indicate the end of a sentence
The period at the end of a sentence indicates a pause, when reading or speaking.
To avoid long & confusing sentences
Separating a long sentence into shorter ones makes the message clearer and easily understandable.
For Advanced Users—Periods in Abbreviation
See Also
- Punctuation
- Punctuation—The Comma (,)
- Punctuation—The Question Mark (?)
- Punctuation—The Ellipsis (…)
- Punctuation—Apostrophe (')
- Punctuation—The Colon (:) & the Semicolon (;)
- Punctuation—Parentheses ( ) & Brackets [ ]
- Punctuation—Quotation Marks (“ ”)
- Punctuation—The Hyphen (-) & the Dashes (–) (—)
- Capitalization