Compound Sentences
What are the FANBOY’s?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What is an appositive?
A word or group that means the same thing as the noun it follows?
Where do you put a comma in a Date.
Ex: Day, Month, Year
My family has been living at 167 Main Street, Anytown, CA 90121 since January 1, 2020.
Dates and Adress
Where does the FANBOY and comma go in the following sentence: It started to rain we pulled out our umbrellas.
It started to rain, so we pulled out our umbrellas.
Where is the appositive in the sentence: My friend, Peter, likes to go fishing.
My friend, PETER,
What is wrong in the following sentence: I live at 67 Main Street, Anytown NY 67676.
No comma after Anytown
The presentation was long and boring, but the audience stayed attentive.
Compound sentence
True or False: A compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
true
True or False: An appositive is a verb or verb phrase that renames another verb or pronoun in a sentence.
F A L S E :3
Yes or No is the Date Correctly written: July, 21, 2067
Its written Incorrectly
Correctly written: July 21, 2067
We remember the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as a day that lives in infamy.
Dates and Address
Where does a comma go into a compound sentence?
Before the conjuction
Where would an appositive go in an sentence?
Next to the noun it renames or identifies.
Where do you put the commas in an Address.
Ex: Street Address, City, State, Zip Code
My neighbor, who is a talented carpenter, built the fence, and I am so grateful for his hard work
Appositive and Compound Sentence
When would you use a comma in a compound sentence?
When you are connecting 2 compound sentences into 1.
Why should an appositive be used in a sentence?
To give more information about a noun in a sentence
Why is there commas in Dates and Address’s.
To separate the different pieces of information.
This weekend on July 14, 2025, my best friend, Perry, and I plan to go fishing together, and we are hoping to catch some Big Bass.
Compound Sentence, Appositive, Dates and Adress’s