Punctuation
Commas should NOT be used in this way:
a) After an introductory word, phrase, or clause
b) To separate 2 independent clauses
c) To separate items in a series (3 nouns, 3 adjectives, etc.)
d) After dates and years
What is B) to separate 2 independent clauses
The following sentence is simple, compound, or complex. Choose which one it is.
Marco and Thomas went to the store and bought snacks for the party.
What is simple?
It has a compound subject and a compound predicate, but is still expressing one thought.
The writer's debatable opinion is called this.
What is a claim?
Which part of speech is missing from this list:
nouns, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions
What are adjectives?
The following sentence has either a simile, metaphor, a hyperbole, or personification. Identify which it is.
Cleaning house when you have pets or children is like washing your car in the rain.
What is a simile?
This is when to use a semi-colon.
What is to separate 2 independent clauses or to break up a sentence with lots of commas?
The following sentence is simple, compound, or complex. Choose which one it is.
Vivian decided to go to a trade school, and she chose cosmetology as her career.
What is compound?
This backs up an argument with facts, research, expert opinions, and experiences.
What is evidence?
Identify the verbs in the following sentence:
Jorge had been walking to the mailbox when he saw a talking dog.
What are had, been, walking, and saw?
The following sentence has either a simile, metaphor, a hyperbole, or personification. Identify which it is.
The wind blew at hurricane strength for several hours. It didn't care how much destruction it caused or people it killed in its wrath.
What is personification?
Identify the punctuation error in the following:
It's not that you're wrong, it's just that I'm right.
What is the comma splice between the 2 independent clauses?
The following sentence is simple, compound, or complex. Choose which one it is.
Before enrolling in the trade school, Vivian talked to a career counselor.
What is complex?
This is what the explanations and reasons for the argument are called.
What are warrants?
The italicized word is this part of speech.
My elderly grandmother lives in Boston with her two cats.
What is adjective?
Turn the following simile into a metaphor:
Sara was as cold as ice when she broke up with her boyfriend.
What is the following:
Sara was ice when she broke up with her boyfriend.
Of the two sentences, this one contains a punctuation error:
a) If your not going to watch the game, then what are you planning to do tonight?
b) "I am going to hang out with friends; they aren't watching the game, either," said Carlos.
What is A?
Identify what is wrong with this sentence:
Since he can't get a loan, he will have to borrow money from his parents he has to get a car for work.
What is a run-on?
When writing an argument essay, it is important to consider and explain this as well as your opinion/claim.
What is the counter-claim or counter-argument?
The italicized word is this part of speech.
That crazy cat keeps getting stuck in the tree.
What is a preposition?
The following sentence has either a simile, metaphor, a hyperbole, or personification. Identify which it is.
It seems like we have been in this class for a million years.
What is hyperbole?
Identify ALL 5 of the punctuation errors in the following:
The neighbors yard is decorated for Christmas, there are lights projectors and an inflatable Santa, but my yards decorations are still in the garage.
What are a missing apostrophe in neighbors, a comma splice between Christmas and there; a comma after lights, a comma after projectors, and a missing apostrophe in yard's?
Identify what is wrong with this sentence:
Since we are leaving now to go shopping for a car.
What is a fragment?
After discussing the counter-argument in an argument essay, the writer must include this to take the reader back to his/her opinion.
What is a rebuttal?
Identify the part of speech for EACH word in the following short sentence:
Maria quickly drove to the hospital.
What is the following:
Maria - noun to - preposition
quickly - adverb the - adjective or article
drove - verb hospital - noun
The following lines from "Stairway to Heaven," by Led Zeppelin, has either a simile, metaphor, a hyperbole, or personification. Identify which it is.
"Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on."
What is a metaphor?