Comma
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I will wash the car but I will not vacuum the interior.
Place a comma after car
which does the following need?
The wizard a master of illusions was virtually unidentifiable in a crowd.
Place a dash after wizard and after illusions
are how we tell our readers we are including words that aren't our own. Whether we're using dialog or quote material from our research,
quotation mark
Since the beginning of time.
This is a sentence fragment made of a dependent clause.
Game we played for ethos, pathos, and logos
Among Us
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Marco went to the store to pick up some apples tomatoes and zucchini.
place a comma after apples and after tomatoes
Dash or hyphen for the following sentence?
The pizza man was a role playing fanatic.
The pizza man was a role-playing fanatic.
hyphen
three dots or periods in a row
Ellipses
The bombastic orator from the Philosophy Club.
This is a sentence fragment with a missing verb.
Meetings we had to go over important paper rough drafts before final submissions
Conferences
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Since we didn't have any more avocados we couldn't make another batch of guacamole.
Place a comma after avocados
it’s often referred to as the “super comma.”
em dash
expresses a complete thought.
independent clause
Quantum tunneling, which is theoretically possible, is a phenomenon that has yet to be discovered in nature.
Should not have been checked. The sentence is correct as is.
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Graphic Organizer
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Zaranda who is the best cardiologist in town told me I should take a yoga class for stress relief.
Place a comma after Zaranda and after town
is less well known than either the hyphen or the em dash, but that doesn’t mean its job isn’t important! You can often substitute the word “to” for the en dash when reading it aloud.
en dash
occurs when you put two complete thoughts or independent clauses together without the proper punctuation or any kind of sentence boundary.
Run-on sentence
Salivating and chomping, scrambled into the kennel.
This is a sentence fragment with a missing subject.
What is the minimum score needed to pass 011?
What is the second way to pass 011 even if you do not make the above score?
Final grade of a 70 or higher or a passing grade for 111 is needed to pass 011
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The small carnivorous rodent only ate at night.
Small and carnivorous are coordinate adjectives that require a comma between them.
s that they’re used to form compound modifiers, that is, to link two or more words that are acting as adjectives or sometimes adverbs.
hyphen
is a group of words that may contain a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought.
dependent clause
Savvy and irresistible, yet unpredictable as a summer storm.
This is a sentence fragment made of a dependent clause.
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kirsten.chaney@cpcc.edu