End Punctuation
📋 What it is
Every sentence ends with a mark: a period (.) for a statement, a question mark (?) for a question, an exclamation mark (!) for strong feeling.
🗣️ Coach says
BOLT-3000 loves to end everything with an exclamation mark! As the teacher, you decide: is it a statement, a question, or real excitement? Match the mark to the JOB the sentence is doing.
🧠 Memory hook
Statement → . · Question → ? · Big feeling → ! One mark per sentence.
😂 Giggle
Why did the comma break up with the sentence?
It needed more space to pause!
😲 Whoa!
The interrobang (‽) was invented in 1962 to be a question and an exclamation at once — but it never caught on.
🖍️ Grade BOLT-3000's end-punctuation edits.
You're the teacher — mark BOLT-3000's work, then reveal how you did. (Grading a robot: all the skill, none of the sting.)
BOLT wrote: “Where are you going.”
✗ Needs a fix — it asks a question, so it needs a question mark: “Where are you going?”
A question takes a "?", not a "."; match the mark to the sentence's job.
BOLT wrote: “Watch out!”
✓ Leave it (Stet) — “Watch out!” is a real warning; the ! is correct — leave it.
The half-right trap: an already-correct mark should be LEFT, not "fixed".
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Write one statement, one question, and one excited sentence — and punctuate each correctly.