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11+ Spot the punctuation mistakes

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  • He said to the man, " do you want to play with me?"
    Capital D required in the speech marks.
  • Can i go home now?
    The I needs to be capitalised.
  • His name is harvey.
    The name needs a capital letter.
  • The childrens food was spaghetti.
    You need an apostrophe between the n and the s in childrens.
  • The boy knew he shouldnt go into the woods.
    apostrophe in the word 'shouldn't'
  • After I went to bed I sneakily read a book.
    The fronted adverbial needs a comma after it (after I went to bed).
  • The person gave her a toy-a red blue and yellow coloured teddy.
    There needs to be a comma between red and blue.
  • The project is due tomorrow; therefore she has to work overtime.
    There needs to be a comma after therefore.
  • We went to the supermarket and bought apples, bananas pears and oranges.
    There needs to be a comma between bananas and pears as it is a list.
  • My dad's birthday is today however, I haven't bought a present yet.
    There needs to be a semi colon between today and however.
  • He was happy; possibly the happiest that he'd ever been.
    No mistake.
  • The three main characters - the horse, the cat and the ogre are absolutely brilliant.
    There needs to be a second dash between ogre and are.
  • He was happy; possibly the happiest that he'd ever been.
    No mistake.
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