Manuscript Form
Give THREE social titles that are abbreviated before a name.
Mr. (Mister), Ms. (Miss), Mrs. (Misses), Dr. (Doctor)
DRAW a picture of a geographical formation that receives a capital letter
(Answers will vary)
Name the END MARKS.
Period, question mark, exclamation point.
Place commas where necessary:
Your comment Mrs. Nelson was in my opinion quite inappropriate.
Your comment, Mrs. Nelson, was, in my opinion, quite inappropriate.
Which punctuation ALWAYS goes OUTSIDE of quotation marks?
DOUBLE POINTS: Which punctuation always goes INSIDE?
Colons and semi-colons
Give an abbreviation for a well-known organization (in English).
DOUBLE POINTS if you mention what the letters stand for!
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), IRS (Internal Revenue Service), NASA (National Aeronautic and Space Administration), etc.
Capitalize family-relationship words when they are used ________ and when ___________
1) Before a person's name
2) Alone in place of a name
Which punctuation do we use to separate items in a list vs. to separate different lists?
DOUBLE POINTS: give an example!
Comma, semi-colon
Name TWO transition words that are used with semi-colons.
- However
- For example
- Therefore
- That is...
Which punctuation SOMETIMES goes inside quotation marks? Why?
Exlamation point and question mark; only when/if it applies to the quotation itself!
Correct the following sentence:
I walked 250 steps down 55th Street.
Fifty-fifth* Street.
Place capitals where necessary in the following title:
"the catcher in the rye" by j.d. salinger
T, C, R, J, D, S.
Commas are used to separate (essential/non-essential) elements. Give an example.
Non-essential
Use a colon to introduce a statement or a quotation that is __________.
Formally announced
True or false: "It's" is the possessive form of "it."
False!
The titles Reverand and Honorable may be abbreviated if used with __________
the full name
Capitalize where necessary in the following sentence:
"eat the bread, governor," said mary, "or you will get sick."
E, G, M
Use a comma when you start a sentence with a(n) ________ clause
DOUBLE POINTS: give an example!
Dependent
Italicize _________ referred to as such (as themselves)
Words, letters, numbers
What is the difference between parentheses and dashes?
Dashes = used to rename; Parentheses = used for confirmatory information/comments to reader
Name TWO cases in which you SHOULDN'T divide a word
- One-syllable words
- After a single letter
- Between a two-letter syllable
Somebody, Nobody
What are the coordinating conjunctions? How do they relate to commas?
FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So); use these and a comma to join two independent clauses
Hyphens are used when fractions are (adjectives/nouns)
DOUBLE POINTS: Give an example of one vs. the other
Adjectives!
Two-thirds cup vs. Two thirds of* the students...
How do quotation marks change when used inside other quotation marks?
DOUBLE POINTS: Which other punctuation changes? Give an example
It becomes "an apostrophe."
Parentheses become brackets.