Task 2. Choose the correct item: 1. I mustn't/needn't do this exercise but it might help.
2. The child is sleeping. We mustn't/shouldn't make a noise.
3. Need/Can you show me the way to the canteen?
4. I have to/had to go to the dentist yesterday.
5. You couldn't/don't have to finish the project today. You can finish the project another day.
6. Would you like little/some/a few milk in your tea?
7. How much/many/few oranges are there on the table?
8. Could you also get me a little/less cheese?
9. There is many/more/a few apples in the fridge.
10. It can/might snow on Friday.
My Mum is a beautician. She has very pleasant work. She loves to make people beautiful and young. I love the fragrant smell of her creams. I believe that this profession is necessary and useful. It makes people happy. I am proud of my parents very much!
Capital letters are not really an aspect of punctuation, but it is convenient to deal with them here. The rules for using them are mostly very simple.
(a) The first word of a sentence, or of a fragment, begins with a capital letter:
The bumbling wizard Rincewind is Pratchett's most popular character.
Will anyone now alive live to see a colony on the moon? Probably not.
Distressingly few pupils can locate Iraq or Japan on a map of the world.
(b) The names of the days of the week, and of the months of the year, are written with a capital letter:
Next Sunday France will hold a general election.
Mozart was born on 27 January, 1756.
Football practice takes place on Wednesdays and Fridays.
However, the names of seasons are not written with a capital:
Like cricket, baseball is played in the summer.
Do not write *"... in the Summer".
(c) The names of languages are always written with a capital letter. Be careful about this; it's a very common mistake.
Juliet speaks English, French, Italian and Portuguese.
I need to work on my Spanish irregular verbs.
Among the major languages of India are Hindi, Gujarati and Tamil.
These days, few students study Latin and Greek.