Examples of Sentences Ending with a Period for Second Grade

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🛑 A sentence always ends with a punctuation mark. A period (.) is one of them!
• ✍️ We use a period at the end of a statement or a command.
• ☀️ A statement tells us something. Example: The sun is bright.
• 📣 A command tells us to do something. Example: Please sit down.
• 🧐 Make sure there's a subject and a verb in your sentence.
• ✅ Capitalize the first letter of the first word in your sentence.

📝 Practice Quiz

1. Which of these sentences is punctuated correctly?
   1. The dog barked at the mailman
   2. The dog barked at the mailman.
   3. The dog barked at the mailman?
   4. Dog barked at the mailman.
2. Which sentence is a command ending with a period?
   1. Are you going to the store.
   2. Go to the store.
   3. Please go to the store.
   4. Why go to the store.
3. Which of these sentences needs a period at the end?
   1. I love to read books
   2. I love to read books.
   3. Do I love to read books?
   4. I love to read books!
4. Which of these starts with a capital letter AND ends with a period correctly?
   1. the cat is sleeping.
   2. The cat is sleeping.
   3. the cat is sleeping
   4. The cat is sleeping
5. Which sentence is a statement that ends correctly?
   1. The bird is blue?
   2. The bird is blue!
   3. The bird is blue.
   4. bird is blue.
6. Which sentence does NOT need a period at the end?
   1. I like ice cream.
   2. What is your name?
   3. My name is Sarah.
   4. The sky is blue.
7. Which sentence is a command that uses a period correctly?
   1. Please be quiet!
   2. Be quiet?
   3. Be quiet.
   4. Be quiet