Punctuation
It separates two independent clauses that are joined by a coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma?
It is used between the two words of a somecompound nouns and andbetween the words of a compound adjective preceding a noun.
What is a hyphen?
A preposition meaning without or other than.
We all left, ___ for Dan.
What is except?
The first person pronoun that is always capitalized.
What is I?
It contains two independent clauses that are not separated by any punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
It is used in the salutation of a business leter, to set off the subtitle of a book and to separate the hour and minutes when signifying time.
What is a colon?
It shows an abrupt shift in thought or tone mid-sentence. Formed in word processing by typing two consecutive hyphens.
What is a dash?
Verb meaning to give someone advice.
What is advise?
___ nouns must always be capitalized.
What is proper?
It contains a subject and a verb, and it may be part of a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
They convey to the reader that what follows replicates original speech or writing.
What is quotation marks?
They are generally used to enclose short interruptions or explanations.
What are parentheses or commas?
To make reference.
Be sure to ___ your sources, or it's plagiarism!
What is cite?
They are capitalized when they precede a person's name, but not if they follow it.
What is a title?
A word group that does not contain a main subject or verb (or both) or is a dependent clause with no independent clause to support it.
What is a fragment?
Its two basic purposes are to show possession and to show contractions.
What is a apostrophe?
It is used to end an interrogative sentence.
What is a question mark?
By a given time.
We tried to catch them, but they'd ____ left.
What is already?
They make up the bulk of capitalized words in English.
What is proper names?
A specific type of run-on caused by a comma that separates two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
It precedes most quotations that are introduced by a dialog tag such as My sister said.
What is a comma?
It is used when forming the plural of letters, numbers, and abbreviations.
What is an apostrophe?
Mentally awake or aware.
Paula came out of the coma and was finally ____ .
What is conscious?
These are nouns that are not to be capitalized.
What is common nouns?
A word groupthat has a subject and a verb but must appear with an independent clause in order to make sense.
What is a dependent clause?