The background research is often the occurrence of errors and discrepancies in determining capital letters and punctuation in class V students of SD Negeri 161 Pekanbaru. In fact, in the second semester III class has been taught about the rules of using capital letters and punctuation. Errors and discrepancies in students' writing on the rules of using capital letters and punctuation are used by students in each of their writings. The purpose of this study was to find out and describe the

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... y of class V students in determining capital letters and punctuation in Pekanbaru Pekanbaru Public Elementary School. This research was conducted in the odd semester of the 2016/2017 academic year, namely on 11-28 October 2017. The type of research in this study was quantitative descriptive. Descriptive research is research that explains and explains an event, situation, event and object that occurs at the present time obtained through collecting data using research instruments and then analyzing and producing quantitative data. Sampling in this study using a sampling technique that is total sampling. The sample in this study was all class V in 161 Pekanbaru Public Elementary School, which amounted to 84 students. The instruments of data collection used are in the form of reading texts in the form of essays that are still misspellings and punctuation marks. The results showed that the students' ability to determine capital letters and punctuation marks in 161 Pekanbaru Public Elementary Schools as a whole indicators belong to a sufficient category with an average value of 59.44. If seen per indicator, there are 2 indicators belonging to the very good category, 3 indicators belonging to the good category, 4 indicators belonging to sufficient categories, and 1 indicator belonging to the less category, namely a comma punctuation after the adverb at the beginning of the sentence.