Punctuation Power
Use this punctuation mark to seperate items in a series.
What is a comma?
This verb tense describes an action that has already happened.
What is past tense?
These seven letters help you remember coordinating conjuctions: F-A-N-B-O-Y-S.
What are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So?
This is the word part added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
Use this word when referring to a place (not their or they're).
What is there?
Use a comma before this type of word when joining two independent clauses to make a compound sentence.
What is a conjuction? e.g., and, but, or
This "perfect" tense uses the helping verb had plus a past participle.
What is past perfect?
A sentence made of one independent clause is called this.
What is a simple sentence?
This Greek/Latin root means "life," as seen in the word biology.
What is bio?
This is the contraction for "you are."
What is you're?
This is how you should format the title of a short story or a poem.
What is using quotation marks?
Identify the tense: "I will have finished my homework by 6:00."
What is future perfect?
Words like because, although, and since are this type of conjuction.
What are subordinating conjuctions?
If the prefix pre- means "before," what does the word preheat mean?
What is to heat before?
Use this word to show a comparison between two things (not then).
What is than?
Correct the punctuation: "Yes I would love to go to the park" she said.
What is: "Yes, I would love to go to the park," she said?
This verb aspect describes an ongoing action (usually ends in -ing).
What is progressive aspect?
This type of sentence contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
These are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings.
What are homophones?
"Its" vs "It's": Which one shows possession?
What is its?
Use Commas to set of this part of a sentence that provides extra information but isn't necessary.
What is an introductory element or an appositive?
Fix the shift in verb tense: "The cat jumped on the counter and licks the bowl."
Identify the error: "I went to the store, I bought some milk."
What is a comma splice?
This strategy involves using the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning.
What are context clues?
This is the difference between accept and except.
What is: 'accept' means to receive, 'except' means to exclude?