Apostrophes are NEVER used to make nouns plural (or more than one), but we often use apostrophes to make nouns this other "P" word.
What is Possessive?
100
Titles of short works, like poems, songs, and short stories, should be written with these.
What are quotation marks?
100
We use the acronym FANBOYS to remember all the possible varieties of this kind of conjunction.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
100
We use the acronym AAAWWUBBIS to remember most of the possible varieties of this kind of conjunction.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
100
Commas can be used to separate the individual items in one of these.
What is a list?
200
Apostrophes can also be used to take the place of missing letters in these crammed-together words.
What are Contractions?
200
Titles of long works, including books, plays, and movies, should be written in this way.
What is underlined?
200
A comma and a FANBOY can be used to combine two of these types of clauses.
What are independent clauses?
200
An AAAWWUBBIS word always begins this type of clause.
What is a "subordinate" or "dependent" clause?
200
We should put a comma between these two parts of a written date.
What is between the day and the year?
300
In the following phrase, the apostrophe goes here:
Helenas favorite
What is "Before the S?"
300
The following title requires this change:
The Dinner Party
What is quotation marks?
300
This FANBOY does the best job of contrasting the clauses in the following sentence:
There was a football game last night, ______ I couldn't go.
What is "but" or "yet?"
300
This AAAWWUBBIS word can be used to correctly complete the following sentence:
_________ I go to school in the morning, I always make sure to brush my teeth.
What is Before?
300
This type of phrase usually has commas at the beginning and the end, and it gives us additional information about the word that comes right before it.
What is an appositive phrase?
400
We should do this with the apostrophe in the following sentence:
The Taylor Duck's are amazing!
What is "Remove it?"
400
The following title requires this change:
Out of My Mind
What is an underline?
400
This FANBOY does the best job of showing the coordinated relationship between the clauses in the following sentence:
The President takes office in January, ______ he serves for a four-year term before the next election.
What is "and?"
400
This AAAWWUBBIS word can be used to complete the following sentence:
_________ Patrick ate bread too quickly, he got really bad hiccups.
What is Whenever or When?
400
If we have one of these clauses at the beginning of a sentence, we will always have a comma right after it.
What is a subordinate clause?
500
In the contraction "haven't," the apostrophe takes the place of this missing letter.
What is the o?
500
This type of print is as good as an underline for titles of long works.
What is italic print?
500
This FANBOY shows the cause and effect relationship between the clauses in the following sentence:
The weather is starting to get cooler, ______ my mother has started to unpack our winter clothes.
What is "so?"
500
This AAAWWUBBIS word can be used to complete the following sentence:
Fall is my favorite season _____________ I really enjoy the cooler weather.
What is because?
500
The comma goes in this precise location in the following sentence:
Helena's favorite song is "You Are My Sunshine" and she hums it when she's happy.