Capitalization
hannah and i went to the store.
What is Hannah and I went to the store?
Definition of a comma splice
What is a run-on sentence that incorrectly uses a comma in the place of a period, exclamation mark, or other ending punctuation mark.
What is a sentence that has is made up or two or more complete sentences with incorrect punctuation to separate them?
What is a question mark?
The dog RAN to the mailbox.
What is a verb?
the park closes at 11:00.
What is The park closes at 11:00?
Fix this sentence using a period: Rachel, Taylor, and Issac went to lunch together, they went to the new Chinese restaurant.
Rachel, Taylor, and Issac went to lunch together. They went to the new Chinese restaurant.
Fix this run-on sentence using a period.
Homecoming was last week the dance and the game were fun.
Homecoming was last week. The dance and the game were fun.
This type of punctuation goes at the end of a declarative statement.
What is a period?
My doctor gave me ANTIBIOTICS to help me get over the flu.
What is a noun?
I live in mcminnville, tennessee.
What is I live in McMinnville, Tennessee?
Fix this sentence using a question mark.
What time is the football game, I want to go.
What time is the football game? I want to go.
Fix this sentence by combining the subjects.
Soccer is fun to play basketball is fun, too.
What is Soccer and basketball are fun to play.
This type of punctuation combines two complete sentences. The second sentence is typically not capitalized.
What is a semicolon?
What is a pronoun?
Mom, dad and I went to Portland for vacation.
What is Mom, Dad, and I went to Portland for vacation?
Fix this sentence by using a semicolon.
Jurassic Park is going back in theaters, it is my favorite movie.
Jurassic Park is going back in theaters; it is my favorite movie.
Fix this sentence by adding a comma and a conjunction that shows contrast.
English was my highest ACT score math was my lowest.
What is English was my highest ACT score, but math was my lowest?
You may use this type of punctuation before showcasing a list of items.
What is a colon?
OUCH! That bee just stung me.
What is an interjection?
I watched the crucible with my mom at park theater this saturday.
What is I watched The Crucible with my mom at Park Theater this Saturday?
Fix this sentence by adding a conjunction that shows correlation.
The weather is supposed to be nice today, my friends and I will go to the beach after school.
The weather is supposed to be nice today, so my friends and I will go to the beach after school.
I want to be a doctor when I grow up and I want to be a lawyer or an accountant.
What is I want to be a doctor, lawyer, or accountant when I grow up?
You may use these THREE kinds of punctuation to separate an appositive from the rest of a sentence.
What are
1. commas
2. dashes
3. parenthesis?
UNLESS I order her present now, it will not arrive before her birthday.