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Practically Punctuating
Life sentences
What Dreams Maycomb
Everything Else
100
The U.S. is currently negotiating the restoration of full diplomatic ties with this country.
What is Cuba?
100
One use for this punctuation mark is to separate words and word groups in a simple series of three or more items.
What is a comma?
100
In the sentence: The video game, which I never play, will be put in the yard sale. commas are used to set off one of these.
What is a nonessential clause?
100
Because this relative who provokes her, Scout gets punished by Uncle Jack for cursing and fighting.
Who is Francis?
100
This is a strategy that we have used to analyze visual rhetoric.
What is OPTIC?
200
When the 79-year-old King Salman took over the throne of this country in January, he promised security and stability. "We will adhere to the path this nation has followed since it was established," he said.
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
This handy mnemonic device helps us remember which coordinating conjunctions will always have a comma before them when joining two independent clauses.
What is FANBOYS?
200
In the sentence: The suspect said that he had never met the victim; however, the detective knew that he was lying. the semicolon is placed in front of an example of one of these, which serves the purpose of connecting ideas.
What is a conjunctive adverb?
200
He is the character that has to put down a mad dog by making a long distance rifle shot.
Who is Atticus?
200
He painted the mural, The Uprising, in which a woman with a baby at her hip and a working man fend off an attack by a uniformed soldier.
Who is Diego Rivera?
300
NBC's Nightly News has lost 700 thousand viewers after a "scandal" involving false statements made by this anchor.
Who is Brian Williams?
300
This can be used between two closely related independent clauses that are not already joined by a coordinating conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
300
These types of words usually show location in the physical world.
What is a preposition?
300
Jem loses his temper and destroys all of this character's camellia bushes, which results in his having to read to her every day for a month as punishment.
Who is Mrs. Dubose?
300
This former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement informed us that "the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed" on a people depends on what that people will allow.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
After the president and other government officials in this country resigned, and foreign embassies were vacated, it now has no functioning government and is in the hands of rebels.
What is Yemen?
400
A question mark or exclamation point would replace this which otherwise ends most complete sentences.
What is a period?
400
This will include a noun and one or more modifiers that serve to label a subject or an object in a sentence.
What is a noun phrase?
400
This is the name of Calpurnia's church, as it was bought with the first earnings of freed slaves.
What is First Purchase?
400
Desmond Tutu, who said "if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor," was an Anglican cleric known for his role in the opposition to apartheid in this country.
What is South Africa?
500
As with the Detroit man who received nearly $300K, this is the practice of financing a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, typically via the internet.
What is crowdfunding?
500
These are used to acknowledge which parts of an essay reference a particular source. They generally include the last name of an author and the page or line number of the source.
What are parenthetical citations?
500
In the sentence: That she has not yet arrived worries me. we have an example of one of these acting as the subject of a verb.
What is a noun clause?
500
She is the character that decides to stay with Jem and Scout for a while, to give them a "feminine influence."
Who is Aunt Alexandra?
500
He is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, non-profit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and is a professor at New York University School of Law.
Who is Bryan Stevenson?
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