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Punctuation
Punctuation II
Confused Words
Capital Letters
Grammar
100
It separates tow independent clauses, which are joined by a conjunction.
What is a comma?
100
It is used when adding certain prefixes to form nouns.
What is a hyphen?
100
A preposition meaning without or other than.
What is except?
100
The first person pronoun that is always capitalized.
What is I?
100
It contains two independent clauses that are not separated by any punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
200
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?
200
It shows an abrupt shift in thought or tone mid-sentence.
What is a dash?
200
To give someone advice.
What is advise?
200
They are capitalized if they are substituting for the person's name.
What is family names?
200
It contains a subject and a verb, and it may be part of a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
300
It conveys to the reader that what follows replicates original speech or writing.
What is quotation marks?
300
They are generally used to enclose shore interruptions or explanations.
What is parentheses?
300
To make reference.
What is cite?
300
They are capitalized when they precede a person's namem, but not if they follow it.
What is a title?
300
What is a sentence 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?
400
Its two basic purposes are to show possession and to show contractions.
What is a apostrophe?
400
It is not used to end an indirect interrogative sentence.
What is a question mark?
400
By a given time.
What is already?
400
They make up the bulk of capitalized words in English.
What is proper names?
400
A comma that separates two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
500
It precedes most quotations.
What is a comma?
500
It marks the plural of letters, numbers, and abbreviations.
What is an apostrophe?
500
Mentally awake or aware.
What is conscious?
500
These are nouns that are not to be capitalized.
What is common nouns?
500
They usually have a subject and a verb, but they must apper with an independent clause in order to make sense.
What is a dependent clause?