Grammar Rules
What does each rule for colons begin with?
What is "to introduce"
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In either/or situations, the verb must agree with the subject ______ to the verb.
What is "nearest"
"What's grownups going to think?"
Name the three rules for using semicolons
To join two independent clauses, with a transition to join two independent clauses, and to separate items in a series.
"The Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, Hants, telephone, telephone, tele--"
Percival Wemys Madison
The following are examples of what part of speech:
Each, everybody, one, anybody, someone
What is a singular indefinite pronoun?
"You are a silly little boy. Just an ignorant, silly little boy. Don't you agree? Aren't you just a silly little boy?"
The Lord of the Flies
Name the seven rules for using commas
After an opener, to set off an interrupter, to set off a closer, to separate items in a series, with one of the FANBOYS, quotations, and dates + addresses.
[Chapter 10] "I thought they wanted the conch."
Piggy