More Common than You May Think - Abbreviations - Punctuation and capitalization

Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

More Common than You May Think
Abbreviations
Punctuation and capitalization

Understanding punctuation and capitalization is important to understanding grammar. Punctuation and capitalization help make writing clear. Imagine a paragraph composed of sentences with no punctuation marks or capital letters. Such a paragraph would be a challenge to read.

The tip sheets and worksheets that follow concentrate on punctuation and capitalization. The first tip sheet and Worksheets 8.1 and 8.2 address abbreviations. The next six tip sheets and Worksheets 8.3 through 8.18 focus on punctuation—end marks, commas, colons, hyphens, apostrophes, quotation marks, and italics—while Worksheets 8.19 through 8.28 offer general reviews of punctuation. The final tip sheet and Worksheets 8.29 through 8.33 focus on capitalization, with Worksheet 8.34 providing a review of capitalization.

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Abbreviations

Abbreviations are shortened forms of words. Many abbreviations start with a capital letter and end with a period. A list of common abbreviations follows.

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8.1 More Common than You May Think

About 45,000 of these occur each day around the world. What are they?

To answer the question, match each word with its abbreviation. Write the letter of each answer in the space above its number at the bottom of the page.

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