Ms. Star my teacher wants us to enter our themes in the contest.
(my teacher)
100
How do you show italics on paper?
Underlining
100
Walt Whitman's poem Beat! Beat! Drums! is about the Civil War.
"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
100
What do you typically put after a conjunctive adverb?
A comma
200
What four types of punctuation do you not put before or after a dash?
Period, Comma, Colon, and Semicolon
200
Will you return these videos they're due today on your way to work?
(they're due today)
200
In 1984, Haing S. Ngor won an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in the film The Killing Fields.
The Killing Fields
200
My parents, Powell reportedly stated, expected their children to do something with their lives.
"My parents," "expected their children to do something with their lives."
200
In developing memory skills, you might therefore focus on these three kinds of memory aural memory, visual memory, and memory for written material.
memory:aural
300
Are dashes used more for formal or informal writing?
Informal
300
Today is the birthday of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791.
(1756-1791.)
300
After several of her books were published to great acclaim, Toni Morrison's Beloved won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988.
Beloved
300
Ukulele comes from the Hawaiian word for flea.
"flea"
300
His popular television show opened each week with a macabre music and image of his portly silhouette he then delivered a dark, but humorous, introduction to the nightly episode
silhouette; he
400
What are the two uses of dashes?
Use a dash to indicate an abrupt break or change thought within a sentence.
Use a dash to set off and emphasize extra information or parenthetical comments.
400
What are the uses of parentheses?
Use parentheses to set off supplemental material.
Use parentheses to set off supplemental material that is not important enough to be considered part of the main statement.
400
The actress Ruth Brown won Broadway's Tony Award for best actress for her part in the 1989 hit musical play Black and Blue
Black and Blue
400
List five things you put in quotation marks.
Direct Quotations
Use quotation marks to enclose titles of short works such as short stories, short poems, essays, newspaper articles, magazine articles, book chapters, songs, and single episodes of a television series.
Use quotation marks to enclose unfamiliar slang and other unusual or original expressions.
Use quotation marks to enclose a definition that is stated directly.
400
What are the three uses for semicolons?
Use a semicolon to separate main clauses that are not joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
Use a semicolon to separate main clauses that are joined by a conjunctive adverb (such as however, therefore, nevertheless, moreover, furthermore, and subsequently) or by an expression such as for example or that is.
Use a semicolon to separate the items in a series when one or more of the items already contain commas.
500
What are three ways that you can use hyphens?
Use a hyphen after any prefix joined to a proper noun or proper adjective.
Use a hyphen after the prefixes all-, ex- (meaning “former”), and self- joined to any noun or adjective.
Use a hyphen after the prefix anti- when it joins a word beginning with i. Also use a hyphen after the prefix vice- except in vice president.
Use a hyphen to avoid confusion between words beginning with re- that look alike but are different in meaning and pronunciation.
Use a hyphen in a compound adjective that precedes a noun. In general, a compound adjective that follows a noun is not hyphenated.
Hyphenate a fraction that is expressed in words.
Hyphenate two numerals to indicate a span.
500
Where does punctuation go when dealing with parentheses?
Place a comma, a semicolon, or a colon after the closing parentheses.
Place a question mark or an exclamation point inside the parentheses if it is part of the parenthetical expression.
Place a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point outside the parentheses if it part of the entire sentence.
500
List five things that are italicized.
Titles of books, long poems, plays, films, television series, paintings, sculptures, and long musical compositions, the names of ships, airplanes, spacecraft, newspapers, magazines, and court cases.
500
Where do you place punctuation when dealing with quotation marks?
Always place a comma or a period inside closing quotation marks.
Always place a semicolon or colon outside closing quotation marks.
Place the question mark or the exclamation point inside the closing quotation marks when it is part of the quotation.
Place the question mark or the exclamation point outside the closing quotation mark when it is part of the entire sentence.
500
What are three of the uses for colons?
Use a colon to introduce a list, especially after a statement that uses such words as these, namely, the following, or as follows.
Use a colon to introduce material that illustrates, explains, or restates the preceding material.
Use a colon to introduce a long or a formal quotation. A formal quotation is often preceded by such words as this, these, the following, or as follows
Use a colon between the hour and the minute of the precise time.
Use a colon between the chapter and the verse in biblical references.
Use a colon after the salutation of a business letter.