50. Two Punctuation Marks
Reading edition
You already know that every sentence must begin with a capital letter. Besides, you have learned that some sentences end with a little mark (.) that is called a period, and some with a mark (?) that is called a question mark.
Written Exercise. In order to prepare for the game on the next page, copy the following sentences on the board.[59] Put capital letters where they belong. Place the right mark, a period or a question mark, at the end of each sentence.
1. what do you see on the side of the mountain
2. a large dog is standing in a snowdrift and barking
3. does he want to call us to him
4. these Saint Bernard dogs are very intelligent
5. they are beautiful dogs
6. what happened to the two boys who went boating on the lake
7. did they take the disobedient dog back to shore
8. the next picture in this book shows what they did
9. what should you have done
Game. The class is divided into two equal sides. Five pupils of one side go to the board. Each pupil writes a question. The questions may be about dogs or horses or Indians or anything that the class may choose. When they are written, the whole class reads them carefully to see whether there are any mistakes in them. Every mistake that is pointed out counts one score for the side that finds it. When the questions have been corrected, five pupils of the other side write the answers. These, in turn, are read by the class for mistakes. Then five more questions are written by five other pupils, and so on. When one of the two sides has made a certain score, twenty-five or more or less, the game ends. The side first reaching that score wins.