Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
24 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
apostrophes |
they are used for ownership |
|
|
asterisks |
look at bottom of the page for more info.
|
|
|
braket |
instruction that are not a part of the sentence |
|
|
1. bullet
|
1. a list of info
|
|
|
1. colons
|
*list *time comma *comma *business |
|
|
clause |
has a subject and a verb may or may not stand alone |
|
|
comma |
conjunction to join 2 sentences *after introductory *phrase *clauses *a list *city and states *direct address *direct quotation *dates (no date comma) *before and or after an interjection *before and after a parenthetical *friendly letters *titles of people *around appositives (it explains a noun)
|
|
|
complete sentences |
must have subject and verb
|
|
|
dash |
something thats coming that is interesting *a long description
|
|
|
1. dependent clause
|
1. cannot stand alone
|
|
|
1. ellipses
|
1. three dots
*use to indicate some words have been left out of a quotation *used to indicate that something unwritten came earlier *use to indicate a sentence trailing off *to indicate a long slow break
|
|
|
1. exclamation point
|
1. use on high energy sentence
2. |
|
|
1. fragment
|
1. incomplete sentence
2. |
|
|
1. hidden subject
|
1. you because it not there
2. |
|
|
1. hyphen
|
1. compound adj. to mean through
*used with prefixes *confusing or hard to read *used with dates and numbers *used with double last names *with score
|
|
|
independent clause |
another word for a sentence.
|
|
|
1. ordinals
|
1. numbers that show position or ranking
2. |
|
|
1. parentheses
|
1. the way info is in the middle of a sentence
*the translation *joke on play on words *an opinion *list *commas go after the parentheses
|
|
|
1. period
|
*end of sentence *decimals *abbreviations
|
|
|
1. phrase
|
1. does not have a subject or verb
2. |
|
|
1. question mark
|
1. yes, on questions but no on indirect questions
2. |
|
|
1. semicolon
|
1. 2 related sentence or sentences with lots of commas.
2. |
|
|
1. quotation marks
|
1. used with direct quotation
*comma before the quotation *capital to began the quotation *periods and commas inside quotation marks *colons and semi colons outside the quotation marks *different speaker new paragraph
|
|
|
1. slashes
|
1. use with meaning and definision
* or fraction
|
