Punctuation and Symbols
Used at the end of a sentence to show excitement or strong feelings.
What is an exclamation point?
This personal identifier must be on all assignments and documents.
What is your Name?
A person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
The type of sentence that gives a command.
What is imperative?
A city in zip code 91201
What is Glendale?
Used to indicate the pause in a sentence or separate items in a list.
A proper sentence will contain specific marks to help indicate how the sentence should be read.
What is punctuation?
The person who tells the story of events taking place in a novel or poem.
Who is the Narrator?
Contains 3 supporting paragraphs in an essay.
What is the Body?
A mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3.14159, that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter.
What is Pi?
Marks used to indicate a direct quote, dialogue or a phrase.
What are quotation marks?
A preposition always before this part of speech in a sentence.
What is a noun?
An Action Word.
What is a verb?
A form of expository writing in which the author gives un-biased information.
What is Informative Writing?
St. Patrick, known as thePatron Saint of Ireland is also commonly known for this specific miracle.
What is driving the snakes out of Ireland?
*Note there is a more literal meaning to that miracle. Take some time to research more before Monday.
The round brackets used to indicate an afterthought or related (non-essential) information.
What are Parentheses?
The subject and verb number (singular/plural)must be in agreement.
What is subject-verb agreement.
Letters that are not vowels.
What are consonants?
The common Modern Language Association format used in writing essays.
The common Modern Language Association format used in writing essays. (The Written Word) What is MLA (or MLA format)?
40 days
What is the period observing Lent?
The symbol to represent the word 'and'.
What is an ampersand?
The correct word order in used in grammar.
What is syntax
In a sentence, these two things must be in agreement.
What are the subject-verb?
A phrase that repeats information that has already been stated.
What is a redundant phrase?
This American mathematician and pioneering "human computer" whose complex orbital mechanics calculations were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights
Who is Katherine Johnson?