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25 Cards in this Set
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Parenthesis
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Whisper. They enclose interuptions too extravagant for a pair of commas to hold.
Commas and periods go out parenthesis. |
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Dash
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Shout. They enclose interruptions too extravagant for a pair of commas to hold.
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Brakcets
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Use to put your own words within a quotation to make the quote suit your own context, or explanation.
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Quotations within quotations.
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When you are quoting something with quotes
" 'Blah, Blah, Blah,' she said." |
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Ellipsis
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When elimating a part of a quote.
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Underline
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books, plays, movies, long poems, ships,trains, airplanes and magazines.
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Quotations
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titles within books and magazines, statues, paintings, foreign words
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Semicolon
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Stop sign.
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Colon:
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Green Light
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Apostrophe all singular possesives
A Few Plurals |
Yeat's poems
the men's room (potty) |
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Apostrophe clarify clusters of nouns
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girls'basketball team's popcorn sale
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Apostrophe indicate omissions
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class of '97
can't |
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apostrophe when adding a grammatical eding to a number, letter, sign or abbreviation
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1970's
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apostrophe units of time and money
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a week's vacation
a dollar's worth two dollars'worth |
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periods
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after a sentence
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comma
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to join independent clauses.
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comma - series
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between all items in a series.
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commas set off
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openers and afterthoughts
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commas enclose
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insertions that can be let out
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semicolon before conjuctive adverbs
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therefore, moreover, nonetheless
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colon to introduce an itemized series
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I love three things:Greg,Jon, and Jeff.
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colon to use to speed a thought through an intersection
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He lived for one thing: money.
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semicolon use to pull related sentences together
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She liked him; he was good to her; he had money in the bank.
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semicolon use as a separator of contrast
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the semicolon is a stop sign; the colon a green light.
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semicolon use to unscramble a long line phrases and clauses
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the tentative book list includes: Brave New World by Alduous Huxley; Dangling Man by Sual Bellow; and 1984 by George Orwell.
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