Capitalization
This word should not be capitalized: Tree, French, Betty
What is tree?
An apostrophe used like this [I've] is called
What is a contraction?
When writing a dependent clause, there is never a comma when
What is comes at the end of a sentence.
are examples of
What are prepositions?
The two ways to check if a ; is used correctly
What are there is a complete sentence on both sides of the ; and both sentences are closely related in topic?
The words in the title that should be capitalized:
the girl with the dragon tattoo
Girl
Dragon
Tattoo
Apostrophes have two purposes
What are possession and contractions
The girl, the one on the bike, is going really fast.
This is an example of
What is an appositive?
The comma rule for prepositional phrases is
What is they never get commas?
The word AN precedes a word that starts with
What is a vowel?
A word is capitalized when it does what?
What is names something?
Which word should not have an apostrophe?
The girl's bike has many colors'.
What is colors?
Two sentences joined by and, or, but, so, yet is called
What is a compound sentence?
What are dependent clauses?
The setting of a story tell the reader
Time and place
A word that is capitalized is called
What is a proper noun?
Which sentence is correct?
1) The half ton of the elephant's food was all they had for the day.
2) The half ton of the elephants' food was all they had for the day.
What is number 2?
To check if a sentence is a compound sentence and not a compound predicate
What is put finger over the conjunction and see if there is a complete sentence on either side.
The three ways to check an appositive
What are 1) it is surrounded by commas, 2) the sentence makes sense if the appositive is removed, 3) it gives more information about the noun right before it.
A main character is called
What is the protagonist?
Correct the sentence: Its good to see its fur has all grown back.
It's good to see its fur has all grown back.
Correct the sentence:
The childrens' games were really loud.
What is the apostrophe goes before the S?
When addressing someone by name in correspondence, commas go
What is before and after the name?
In the sentence: I like fishing camping hiking and skiing. The commas go
What is after fishing, camping, hiking?
Write out numbers when
What is they are under 10 OR at the beginning of a sentence?