Semicolons/Colons
Semicolons are most commonly used between these.
Independent clauses
Appositive phrases offer this to the reader.
What is extra information?
Adverbs can modify these.
What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?
This is the required format for an infinitive phrase.
What is "to+a verb"?
This author wrote The Color Purple and Everyday Use.
Who is Alice Walker?
If you were going to use a colon, it belongs where in the following sentence:
I need to buy eggs, milk, flour, and vanilla extract.
Between "buy" and "eggs"
Appositive phrases are always set off by this.
What are commas?
The following sentence has two adverbs. Identify them.
I am very upset with him for egregiously cheating on his exam.
What are very and egregiously?
Identify the infinitive phrase in the following sentence:
Sometimes they tell us to run in the Army.
What is "to run"?
This famous celebrity (proper noun) recently died after many years in the senate and five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Who is John McCain?
When a semicolon is used to separate items in a list that have commas IN them, we call it a ______.
What is a supercomma?
When you remove the appositive phrase from the sentence, it should still do what?
What is make sense?
Adverbs almost always end in this.
What is "ly"?
Identify the infinitive phrases in the following sentence.
I wanted to break out of jail, so she told me to meet her at midnight in the hallway.
What are "to break" and "to meet"?
Identify the pronouns in the following sentence:
I love him, but he always hurts me.
What are I, him, he, me?
If you're going to use a semicolon in a sentence, you use it to replace what two items?
the comma and the conjunction
Identify the appositive phrase in the following sentence:
My mother, the woman over there in red, is a delightful woman.
What is "the woman over there in red"?
Identify the adverbs in the following sentence:
Many scantily dressed teens were energetically playing beach volleyball in the courtyard.
Hamlet is famous for this infinitive phrase.
What is "to be or not to be"?
The Peachtree Road Race is run every year on THIS national holiday, which is also a proper noun.
What is the July 4th?
What are before a list, when telling time, and in a mathematical ratio?
DAILY DOUBLE:
Identify the appositive phrase in the following sentence:
The insect, a large, hairy-legged cockroach that has spied my bowl of oatmeal, is crawling across the kitchen table.
What is a large, hairy-legged cockroach that has spied my bowl of oatmeal?
Identify the adverbs in the following sentence:
Unbelievably, I saw a kid running fast through the hallway before tripping clumsily and painfully knocking out his two front teeth .
What are unbelievably, fast, clumsily, painfully?
Identify the infinitive phrases in the following sentence:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
What is there are none?
In the story Everyday Use, this character is the narrator of the story.
Who is Mama, Mrs. Johnson, or even Big Dee?