Read the following conversation paying special attention to the use of question marks, and exclamation marks.
"Where's the champion of Israel?" shouted Goliath.
"Let him come and fight with me!"
"Who is this man?" said David.
"I'll go and fight him."
"How stupid you are!" Goliath exclaimed.
You understand from the above sentences that a question ends with a question mark (?) and an exclamatory sentence with an exclamation mark (!)
Now read the following conversation and use question mark or exclamation mark wherever necessary.
Tess: I want to buy a miracle. How much does it cost
The Shopkeeper: i am sorry
Tess: Why
The shopkeeper: Because we don't have any medicine like "a miracle".
Tess
: What a pity
II. Apostrophe (') in possessive case of nouns and contractions
Read the following passage.
Andrew's disease worried Tess's parents because they did not have enough money for the treatment. Tess heard her father's words. She decided to buy a miracle to cure her brother's disease. She went to the medical store to buy the medicine. The shopkeeper said, "We don't sell miracles here. I'm sorry."
As you can see from the words/expressions in bold, the apostrophe is used to indicate
the following.
Possessive form Contacted form
Andrew's disease
don't
brother's disease
I'm
Here, Tess's
parents means, the parents of Tess. Similarly, Andrew's disease means the disease of Andrew.