Elementary Skuul
Concepts
Concepts
This sentence is missing one
Period
This looks like a minus sign, but it connects two words into a new term (like hard-headed).
Hyphen
Two dots that are followed by a list:
Colon
Toys, cars, Paris and Disneyland are all _____________ while run, skip, hop and frolic are _______________.
Nouns & Verbs
The ____________ is the noun that the sentence focuses on, while the _______________is the action or state of being that the subject focuses on.
Subject/Predicate
When I write about shouting at bratty kids, my shout should end in this
!
This also looks like a minus sign but is used to interrupt, or make a sentence break - like this one!
Dash
A mark used to show Possessions OR Contractions, but NOT PLURALS!
Apostrophe
____________ are describing words for nouns, while ______________ (which usually end in -ly) are descibring actions
Adjectives & Adverbs
This is a word that shows the location of a noun, like "on, in, under, between or around"
Preposition
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These three dots are used INFORMALLY to pause or trail off, or FORMALLY to omit/leave out information.
Ellipses
It is used to pause a sentence before continuing
Comma
A name that deserves capitals would be a _________________ while a replacement for a name would be a _________________
Proper Noun and Pronoun
Name this sentence structure:
My cat, Mr. Fluffy Mitten Paws, threw up his dinner today.
Apposition
this sentence is missing a very important element.
Capitalization!
FANBOYS is an acronym to represent these, and are used in Compound Sentences:
Coordinating Conjunctions
These are used to add in more information, like a side note
Parentheses
__________________ follow the word "the" and _________________________ follow the word "a/an"
Definite Articles/Indefinite Articles
Simple Sentence
Quotation Marks
Since, because, if, unless, etc. are known as_____________ and are used in complex sentences
Subordinating Conjunctions
This is used to connect two independent clauses (because a comma is not strong enough!)
Semicolon
In the sentence "My dog ate the homework of my sister" homework is the _________ and sister is the__________
Direct Object/Indirect Object
This sentence type uses three pieces of information, and uses both coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Compound-Complex Sentences.