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 Shift keys are used in combination with other keys for
diff erent purposes. For example, Shift key is pressed with

any letter key to type the letter in upper case.

 Caps Lock key is used to type letters in upper case (capital letter).

 Control (Ctrl) keys are pressed with other keys to perform special

tasks.

 Symbol keys are used to add punctuation marks and other symbols while typing.

Double Quotes Braces Dash Exclamation
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“ { { < ! A keyboard having the
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‘ [ [ - 1 given leftmost alphabet
keys: Q, W, E, R, T and Y is

Apostrophe Brackets Comma called QWERTY keyboard.

Parentheses Question Mark Quotation Mark
Colon
_ Think and Discuss
( ) > ? “ :
- 9 0 . / ‘ ; • How many Enter keys are
there on a keyboard?
• What does the Space bar key
Hyphen Period Slash Semicolon of a keyboard type?

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• Navigation Keys: These keys are used to move
the cursor around in a document to see or

make changes in the text. Page Up, Page Down,
Home, End and arrow keys are navigation keys.
Left Right
The arrow keys are used to move the cursor in
diff erent directions. They are also called cursor
Down
control keys.

• Function Keys: These keys perform a special task. There are 12 function keys from F1

to F12.

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