End Marks
You use this punctuation mark to end a declarative or imperative sentence.
What is a period?
A comma and a coordinating conjunction join these two things.
what is two independent clauses?
You may use a semicolon as a substitution for this in between two independent clauses.
What is a comma and coordinating conjunction?
If a quotation is interrupted, you only capitalize the first word of the second phrase if.
What is if the second part is beginning a new sentence?
Use an apostrophe to form this case of nouns.
What is possessive case?
You use a period to end an _________ question.
What is an indirect question?
You use a pair of commas to set off this type of element.
What is a nonessential element? (appositives, participial phrases, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses)
Use a colon before listed items, especially when announced by such words as.
What is ”as follows” or “the following”?
These are three nonnegotiable punctuation rules for being inside and outside of quotation marks. (Commas, periods, colons, semicolons, question marks, and exclamation points)
What is commas and periods always go inside, colons and semicolons always go outside, and question marks and exclamation marks must apply to the sentence as a whole or the quote as a whole?
To form the possessive case of a plural noun that ends in ”s” you must do these two things
What is to first write the plural spelling of the word and then add an apostrophe
Use a period to indicate an ______ (example: Mr. / Mrs. / Dr.)
What is an abbreviation?
These are the three reasons you would use a single comma.
What is when words have been omitted, to avoid a misreading, and to separate two or more coordinate adjectives preceding a noun?
You would use a semicolon between items in a series for this reason.
What is if the items themselves contain commas?
Use quotation marks to enclose these types of works.
What is titles of short stories, short poems, songs, chapters, articles, and other parts of books or magazines?
Use an apostrophe and s to form the possessive case of this type of pronoun.
What is an indefinite pronoun?
What two types of sentences do you end with an exclamation point?
What is an exclamatory and imperative sentence strongly stated?
You use a comma to set off these kinds of phrases.
What is introductory modifying phrases?
Use a colon to introduce this when it is formally announced.
What is a statement or quotation?
Use these types of quotation marks for an element within a quotation.
What are single quotations?
Use an apostrophe to show that these two things have been omitted from a word.
What is letters or numbers?
These are examples of abbreviations that do not require periods.
What is the FBI, CIA, FICA, UPI, OAS, etc?
You use commas to set off parenthetical expressions which include.
What are: in fact, nevertheless, of course, indeed, however, etc
This is the primary difference between a colon and a semicolon.
What is a colon is introducing new information and a semicolon is joining two clauses or phrases?
Use this mark to indicate that words are omitted within a quoted section of material.
What is an ellipsis?
This is how you form the possessive case for compound words and words that show joint possession.
What is by making the last word possessive?