Enclosing Punctuation
What surrounds a quote.
What are quotation marks?
To speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment.
What is a quote?
josh said there will be no school tomorrow
Josh said, "There will be no school tomorrow."
The study of words.
What is morphology?
The symbols you use when citing a page number directly after a quote
What is parenthesis?
A puctuation mark, used especially as a mark of separation within the sentence.
What is a comma?
"Im afraid the store closes tonight, said Samuel.
"I'm afraid the store closes tonight," said Samuel.
The root and suffix in morphology.
What are "morph-" and "-ology"?
The symbols either used to contain clarifying information or to surround important text in a quote.
What are brackets?
The act or practice of inserting standardized marks or signs in written matter to clarify the meaning and separate structural units.
What is punctuation?
"This project may soon be at an end," anounced Mark "yet many things still are still missing."
"This project may soon be at an end," anounced Mark, "yet many things still are still missing."
The inventors of the aeroplane and first people in flight.
Who were the Wright Brothers?
When citing your source and your paper is not about a specific book.
When should you cite an author's name and book title, rather than just the page number?
A word, clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a syntactic unit which expresses an assertion, a question, a command, a wish, an exclamation, or the performance of an action, that in writing usually begins with a capital letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation, and that in speaking is distinguished by characteristic patterns of stress, pitch, and pauses.
What is a Sentence?
Matthew can't read or write yet", said Mrs. Elk, "but he can draw, and draw he certanly does. All over my tables, I tell you!"
Matthew can't read or write yet," said Mrs. Elk, "but he can draw, and draw he certanly does. All over my tables, I tell you!"
"This exhibit is home to the largest male lion in the country", exclaimed the tour guide.
"This exhibit is home to the largest male lion in the country," exclaimed the tour guide.
A punctuation mark used to set off a phrase or clause for emphasis, indicate a sudden break in thought, or replace other punctuation like commas, parentheses, or colons.
What is an em-dash?
An utterance from one full stop to another.
What is a period?
"The sun is too bright today!" exclaimed the toddler.
"The Sun is too bright today!" exclaimed the toddler.
A punctuation mark made of three spaced periods used to show that words have been omitted from the original text.
What is an ellipsis?