Conjunctions
A word that joins words, phrases, clauses, or ideas.
What is a conjunction?
This is a word or phrase that expresses emotion, surprise, or reaction.
What is an interjection?
Use commas to separate three or more of these.
What are items in a list?
This punctuation mark connects two closely related independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
These punctuation marks show someone's exact words.
What are quotation marks?
These are three types of conjunctions.
What are coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions?
This punctuation mark is used after strong interjections.
What is an exclamation point?
This famous comma comes before the final "and" in a series.
What is the Oxford comma?
"I was hungry, I made a sandwich." is an example of this error.
What is a comma splice?
This punctuation mark shows missing letters in contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
This is the acronym used to remember coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
This punctuation mark ends a complete statement.
What is a period?
A comma is needed after this type of phrase: "After school, we went to the game."
What is an introductory phrase?
Transition words like however, therefore, and meanwhile are commonly preceded by this punctuation mark.
What is a semicolon?
In the contraction "don't," the apostrophe replaces this.
What are the letters in "do not"? Or the "o".
These conjunctions join equal ideas.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
A sentence must contain these three things to deserve a period.
What are a subject, a verb, and a complete thought?
Use commas when speaking directly to someone; this rule is called this.
What is direct address?
This punctuation mark introduces a list, explanation, or example after a complete sentence.
What is a colon?
For a singular possessive noun, you usually add this.
What is 's?
In the sentence "We stayed inside because it was raining," this type of conjunction is used.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
"After the movie" is an example of this type of incomplete sentence.
What is a fragment?
A comma should come before these when joining two independent clauses.
What are FANBOYS?
Colons should only be used after this type of sentence.
What is a complete sentence?
For a plural possessive noun ending in s, you add only this.
What is an apostrophe?