This mark is used to end sentences with emphasis or excitement.
What is an exclamation point?
100
Words like a, an, and the.
What are articles?
100
These occur when you join two independent clauses with a comma and no coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
100
These cannot stand alone as sentences because do not express complete thoughts. They can, however, be combined with independent clauses.
What are dependent clauses?
100
Finding himself in a new land.
What is a fragment?
200
Statements are ended by this punctuation mark.
What is a period?
200
These bring clauses together. They include, and, but, and so.
What are conjunctions?
200
In preparation for the quiz, La'Mia studied comma splices and fused sentences until she thought her brain would burst, finally, she put away her notes, convinced that she would remember the rules even on her death bed.
What is a comma splice?
200
These do stand alone as sentences.
What are independent clauses?
200
"That chump doesn't know me at all," she thought.
What is a complete sentence?
300
These join two independent clauses with an obvious connection to create compound sentences without conjunctions.
What are semicolons?
300
These work with nouns or pronouns to place words in time, place, or direction.
What are prepositions?
300
Two independent ideas that run together when they should be separated by punctuation.
What are fused sentences.
300
These are the elements of the sentence that do or receive action provided by the verb.
What are subjects?
300
That's her over there.
What is a complete sentence?
400
These join clauses, indicate pauses, and are used to construct lists.
What are commas?
400
These modify, describe, or clarify nouns and pronouns.
What are adjectives?
400
My cat Buster loves to nap on warm appliances when he sleeps on top of the television, his tail swipes the screen like a windshield wiper.
What is a run-on (fused) sentence?
400
Another name for independent clauses.
What are simple sentences?
400
But secretly hated roses.
What is a fragment?
500
These are used to introduce lists; these are not to be confused with their cousins, used to combine these very clauses.
What are colons?
500
Words that indicate action.
What are verbs?
500
At the campus coffee cart, Gini makes the best drinks her sweet cream latte, a blend of vanilla ice cream and espresso, will put on the pounds, but its cool, smooth taste is worth a trip to the gym.
What is a run-on/fused sentence?
500
These are not complete sentences because they are missing subjects, verbs, or both.