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What is a sentence?
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A group of words that expresses a complete thought.
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What are the two parts of a sentence?
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A subject and a predicate.
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What is the complete subject?
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Includes all the words that tell whom or what the sentence is about.
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What is the complete predicate?
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Includes the verb and all the words that complete the verb's meaning.
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What is the simple subject?
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The main word or words in the complete subject.
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What is the simple predicate?
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(or verb) is the main word or words in the complete predicate.
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What is a verb?
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A word used to express an action, a condition, or state of being.
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What is a compound subject?
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Is made up of two or more subjects that share the same verb.
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What is a compound verb?
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Is made up of two or more verbs that have the same subject.
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What types of sentences are there?
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Declarative ( . )
Interrogative ( ? ) Imperative ( . or ? ) Exclamatory ( ! ) |
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What is a subject compliment?
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A word or group of words that follows a linking verb and renames or describes the subject.
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What is a predicate noun?
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Follows a linking verb and defines or renames the subject.
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What is a predicate adjective?
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Follows a linking verb and describes a quality of the subject.
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What is a direct object?
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A word or group of words that names the receiver of the action.
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What is an indirect object?
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A word or group of words that ells to whom or what (or for whom or what) an action is performed.
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What is a sentence fragment?
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A part of a sentence that is written as if it were a complete sentence.
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What is a run-on?
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Two or more sentences written as though they were a single sentence.
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What is a noun?
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A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
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What is a common noun?
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A general name for a person, place, thing, or idea. Not usually capitalized.
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What is a proper noun?
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A name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea. Are always capitalized.
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What is a concrete noun?
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A thing that can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted.
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What is an abstract noun?
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Names an idea, feeling, quality, or characteristic.
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What is a collective noun?
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A word that names a group of people or things.
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What does a singular noun name?
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One person, place, thing, or idea.
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What does a plural noun name?
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More than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The plural irregulars:
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Singular: man | child | foot | mouse
Plural: men | children | feet | mice |
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What is a possessive noun?
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Shows ownership or relationship.
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What is a compound noun?
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Made of two or more words used together as a single noun.
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What can a noun be used for?
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A noun can be used as a subject of a sentence or it can work as a complement.
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What is an object of a preposition?
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The noun or pronoun that follows the proposition.
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What is an appositive?
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A noun or pronoun that identifies or renames another noun or pronoun.
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What is an appositive phrase?
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Is made up of an appositive and its modifiers.
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What is a pronoun?
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A word that is used in place of a noun or another pronoun.
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What are personal pronouns?
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'We', 'I', 'she', 'them', and 'it' are all personal pronouns.
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What is a subject pronoun?
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Used as the subject of a sentence or as a predicate pronoun after a linking verb.
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What is an object pronoun?
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Can be used as a direct object, an indirect object, or an object of a preposition.
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What is a possessive pronoun?
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Is a personal pronoun used to show ownership or relationship.
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What is a reflexive pronoun?
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Refers to the subject and directs the action of the verb back to the subject.
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What is an intensive pronoun?
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Emphathizes a noun or another pronoun within the same sentence.
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What is a verb?
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A word used to express an action, a condition, or a state of being.
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What is a direct object?
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A noun or pronoun that names the receiver of a verb's action.
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What is an indirect object?
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It tells "to what" or "who" or "for what" or "whom" an action is done.
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What is a transitive verb?
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An action verb that has a direct object.
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What is an intransitive verb?
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An action verb that does not have a direct object.
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What is a subject compliment?
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A word that is a linking verb connects its subject to.
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What is a predicate noun?
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A noun that follows a linking verb and identifies, renames, or defines the subject.
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What is a predicate adjectives?
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An adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject.
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What are the basic forms of a verb?
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The present, the present participle, the past, and the past participle.
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Examples of the forms of the verbs?
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Present: sail
Present Participle: are sailing Past: sailed Past Participle: have sailed |
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What is a regular verb?
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A verb whose past and past participle are formed by adding -ed or -d to the present.
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What are irregular verbs?
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Verbs whose past and past participle forms are not made by adding -ed or -d to the present.
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What is a verb tense?
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A verb form that shows the time of an action or condition.
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What are the three simple tenses?
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The present, the past, and the future.
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What is the present tense of a verb?
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The present principle part.
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What is the past tense of a verb?
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The past principle part.
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What is the future tense of a verb?
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Add will to the present principal part.
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What is an adjective?
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A word that modifies, or describes, a noun or a pronoun.
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What is an article?
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A, an, and the.
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What is a proper adjective?
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Formed from a proper noun. Are always capitalized.
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What is a predicate adjective?
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An adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the verb's subject.
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What is a demonstrative pronoun?
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This, that, these, and those. Can be used as adjectives.
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What is a possessive pronoun?
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My, our, your, her, his, its, and their. Can be used as adjectives.
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What is an indefinite pronoun?
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All, each, both, few, most, and some. Can be used as adjectives.
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What is an adverb?
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A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
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What is an intensifier?
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Adverbs that modify adjectives or other adverbs. Usually placed before the word they modify. They usually answer the question "to what extent".
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When do you use the comparative form?
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When you compare a person or thing with one other person or thing.
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When do you use the superlative form?
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When you compare someone or something with more than one other person or thing.
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What is the difference between good and well?
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Good = adjective (modifies a noun/pronoun).
Well = usually an adverb (modifying a verb), or sometimes an adjective [health-wise]. |
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What is the difference between real or really?
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Real = adjective (modifies a noun/pronoun).
Really = adverb (modifies a verb/adverb/adjective). |
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What is a negative word?
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A word that implies that something does not exist or happen.
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What is a double negative?
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Two negative words that are used where only one is needed.
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What do you capitalize when you write?
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- People's names and initials.
- Titles and abbreviations of titles. - Titles of heads of state, royalty, or nobility when in front of a name. - Words indicating family relations. - The pronoun "I". - Religious, sacred days/writings. - Nationalities. |
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What do you capitalize in sentences?
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- First word in every sentence.
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What do you capitalize in poems?
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- Traditionally, the first word of each line.
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When do you capitalize with quotations?
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- The first word of a quote if it begins with a complete sentence.
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What do you capitalize in outlines?
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- The first word of each entry.
- The letters that introduce major subsections. |
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What do you capitalize in a letter?
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- The first word in the greeting & closing of a letter.
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What do you capitalize in a title?
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- First word.
- Last word. - All other important words. |
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When do you use a period in a sentence?
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- End of a statement.
- End of a command. - End of an indirect question. - End of most abbreviations/initials. |
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When do you use question marks in a sentence?
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- End of an interrogative sentence.
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When do you use exclamation points in a sentence?
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- End of an exclamatory sentence.
- After an interjection. |
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When do you use exclamation points in a sentence?
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- End of an exclamatory sentence.
- After an interjection. |
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When do you use a comma in a sentence?
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- Before a conjunction that joins independent clauses in a compound sentence.
- In a series, whenever the reader is confused. - Between 2+ adjectives modifying the same noun. |
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When do you use a comma in an introductory phrase?
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After the phrase to separate it from the rest of the sentence.
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When do you use a comma with interrupters?
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To set off words that interrupt or break the flow of thought in a sentence.
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When do you use a comma with direct addresses?
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To set off nouns of direct addresses.
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When do you use commas in dates, addresses, and letters?
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Between city & state, between day & year, after greeting, after town and state, after city and country, after day and year, after closing.
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When do you use quotation marks?
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At the beginning and end of a direct quotation.
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When do you question/exclamatory marks with quotations?
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Quotation is a question/exclamation: Inside the closing quotation mark.
Quoted words are part of a question/exclamation: Outside of closing quotation mark. |
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What is a semicolon?
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Separates elements in a sentence.
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What is a colon?
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Indicates that a list follows.
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When do you use a semicolon?
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- Join parts of a compound sentence.
- Parts of a compound sentence where clauses are too long and complicated or when they contain commas. |
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When do you use a colon?
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- Introduce a list of items.
- After formal greeting in a letter. - Between hours and minutes in time. |
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When do you use hyphens?
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- Part of a word must be carried over from one line to the next.
- Certain compound words. - Numbers twenty-one to ninety-nine. - Spelled out fractions. |
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When do you use dashes?
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Show an abrupt break in thought.
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When do you use parentheses?
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To set off material that is loosely related to the rest of the sentence.
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When do you use apostrophes?
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- Form the possessive.
- In contractions - ' + s to form the plural of something. |
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When do you use quotation marks in punctuating titles?
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- Set off the titles of short works.
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When do you use italics for punctuating titles?
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- Longer Works and names of ships, trains, spacecraft, or airplanes.
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