The Court Rules
Two complete sentences (punctuated as one) with no punctuation between them.
What is run on?
Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake"!
Exclamation point goes inside the quotation marks.
The punctuation mark used to separate items in a series.
What is a comma (,)?
Sometimes you have to make exceptions. No kidding.
What is a rhetorically effective fragment?
Michael Crichton combines scientifical information with enthralling literature in his books.
Two or more complete sentences not started with "and, or, for, but, yet, so" and joined with a comma.
What is comma splice?
Warm and plump, Mary Beth inhaled the long-awaited hot dog.
What is dangling modifier?
The punctuation mark that separates two complete sentences and that is not a period, dash, or colon.
What is a semi colon (;)?
The policemen, firemen, and mailmen had gathered to honor fallen heroes.
What is discriminatory language?
Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.
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What is sentence types?
One subject, one verb (predicate), and it stands alone.
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What is a sentence?
My parents bought a house from a man with no inside plumbing.
What is misplaced modifier?
It can be used to introduce a long list.
What is a colon (:)?
Who did you call last night?
Acceptable use of who, less formal than whom.
In spite of its name, it won't catch spelling errors like "there" or "their".
What is spell-check?
"Between you and I"
Incorrect case (objective after preposition).
Either are correct.
What is subject-verb disagreement?
One of three ways to fix a run-on sentence.
What is period, semi-colon, and comma with coordinating conjunction?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.
What is parallel structure?
Is Bob dead, did something break?
What is comma splice?
One independent clause + one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
The perfect Martini uses equal dry and sweet Vermouth, having no more than one ounce of water or ice, and is always made with gin instead of vodka.
List not in parallel structure.
A punctuation mark that is often substituted for the colon or comma and is considered less formal.
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What is a dash (-)?
To boldly go where no one has gone before.
What is acceptable split infinitive?
If we cooperate together, we can fulfill the necessary requirements.
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What is a wordy sentence.