Punctuation
Comma Rules
Senior Project
Thanksgiving
100

This punctuation mark is missing in the example: 

I like to swim; however the water is too cold.

What is the comma?

100

Thanksgiving feast was first held in Massachusetts, and the dinner lasted three full days.

What is between two independent clauses?

100

The number of non WBL and WBL uploads in a senior website portfolio.

29 and 33

100

This state hosted the first Thanksgiving.

What is Massachusetts?

200

This punctuation mark is missing in the example:

I like to swim however, the water is too cold.

What is the semi-colon?

200

One Native American chief, Massasoit, saved the lives of the Europeans by teaching them to hunt.

What is the appositive? 

200

March 7, 2025

The date of the senior presentation.

200

This is the name that history has given the European settlers who celebrated the first Thanksgiving.

Who are the pilgrims?

300

Two punctuation marks are missing in the example:

Thanksgiving recess starts this week consequently school ends this week on Wednesday, not Friday!

What are the semi-colon and the comma?

300

The Wampanoag and the Europeans enjoyed duck, pheasant, clams, salmon, deer, and corn during the first Thanksgiving. 

What is items in a series?

300
This letter is the most formal type of business letter. It has no indentations, and uses the colon in the salutation. 

What is a cover letter?

or What is a full block letter?

300

The Wampanoag Native Americans fed the settlers mostly_____________, not turkey, during the original feast in 1621.

What is seafood or what is fish?

400

This punctuation mark is missing in the example:

Please purchase the following items milk, butter, and eggs.

What is the colon?

400

Seafood, not turkey, was the most abundant protein at the first Thanksgiving.

What is contrasting elements?

400

This is a less formal letter. It has indented lines, and used the comma, not the colon, in the salutation.

Thank you letter

or Modified block letter

400

This US president was the one who made Thanksgiving a national holiday.

Who is Lincoln?

500

This punctuation mark is missing in the example:

During the autumn of 1621, at least 90 Wampanoag joined 52 English people at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, to mark a successful harvest. It is remembered today as the First Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving: Historical Perspectives 2021. 


What are the parenthesis?

500

In the early 1940's, congress passed the law creating the national holiday we call Thanksgiving.

What is introductory phrase rule?

500

These two documents, from the 10th and 11th grade, must appear in your senior portfolio.

What a re the resume and the personal statement?

500

In 1621, during the year of the first Thanksgiving feast, English settlers who were near starvation were taught fishing, farming, hunting, and trapping by this group of people.

Who are the native Americans?

or, specifically, 

Who are the Wampanoag?

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