Punctuation
Most sentences end with this.
What is a period?
Every sentence starts with this.
What is a capital letter?
This section of a letter often starts with “Dear”.
What is the greeting?
This part of speech includes people, places, and things.
What is a noun?
This part of an essay gets your reader interested in the topic.
What is a hook?
This is used when you make a list with two or more items.
What is a comma?
These are found on calendars and must be capitalized. (Two things)
What are days and months?
This is the section of a letter/essay where most of the writing is done.
What is the body?
This type of word describes the action in a sentence.
What is a verb?
A question mark would indicate this type of sentence.
What is a question?
This mark shows ownership or possession.
What is an apostrophe?
These times of year are not capitalized.
What are seasons?
This goes between the closing and your printed name.
Your signature.
This type of word describes.
What is an adjective?
This part of a essay is the map and tells the reader your position with reasoning.
What is a claim?
This mark indicates excitement or anger.
What is an exclamation point?
These types of nouns require capitalization.
What are proper nouns?
The most common closings for letters are "sincerely," "best," and ...
What is "Thank you"/"thanks"?
This type of clause has a subject and verb, but it is not a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?
This part of an essay uses quotation marks and has a citation.
What is evidence?
This “double apostrophe” goes by this name.
What are quotation marks?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This major language does not always require all parts of a proper names to be capitalized.
(This is worth double the points).
What is Spanish?
This goes on the front/center of the envelope.
The recipient's address.
This type of word indicates that there is a full sentence following it.
What is an independent marker word?
This part of an essay gives the reader basic information about your topic.
What is background?