CaPitALizAtION
In English, you always need to remember to capitalize certain things. Name 3 reasons to capitalize.
-Names of pets and people
-Specific Places/Landmarks/Bodies of Water
-Days/Months/Holidays
-Titles of people
-Nationalities/ Names of Languages/Religions
-Schools/Businesses/ Organizations/Teams
-Titles of work
Why is punctuation important?
It is important because it conveys meaning and tone, guides readers, and helps avoid misunderstandings.
Explain the difference between subject and predicate?
A subject is tells us "who" or "what" the sentence is about. Then a predicate tells what the subject is doing in the sentence.
What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place, or thing.
What is diagnoses?
This is the correct plural of “diagnosis,” a word commonly used in medical and psychological contexts.
True or False:
Friday is always capitalized.
True
Which punctuation do you use to gather information about something or someone?
Question mark ?
What is a simple subject?
Tells us who or what the sentence is about and includes nouns only.
What is deer?
This animal name stays the same in both its singular and plural forms, like “one deer” and “many deer.”
What is matrices?
This is the plural of “matrix,” commonly used in math, science, and sci-fi films.
What is a school subject (e.g., English, Algebra II, but not "science")?
When naming this type of academic course, you only capitalize the subject if it is a language or includes a course number.
What is a run-on sentence?
This punctuation error happens when two independent clauses are joined without any punctuation at all.
Choose the correct complete subject in the following sentence: I went to the farmer's market yesterday.
I
What is bacteria?
This is the plural form of “bacterium,” although it’s often incorrectly used as singular in everyday speech.
What is a hyphen?
This punctuation mark is used to link words in a compound adjective that come before a noun, as in “well-known author.”
What is a historical era or movement?
This term should be capitalized when it refers to a specific historic period like "the Renaissance," but not when used in a general sense like "a renaissance in music."
What is the Oxford comma?
This optional punctuation mark before the final item in a list is often debated but required in formal or academic writing.
What is “as well as the players”?
In the sentence “The coach, as well as the players, is ready for the game,” this part of the subject is not considered when determining subject-verb agreement.
The plural of "moose" is...still moose. That's it. This is one of these no-change plurals that defies logic and the laws of nature.
irregular plural that doesn't change
What is an em dash?
In the sentence “It was cold — colder than anyone expected,” this punctuation mark adds emphasis and replaces a colon or parentheses.
What is a government body or legislative institution?
Capitalize this kind of reference only when it includes the official name—like “Congress” or “Parliament”—but not when talking about "a congress" in general terms.
Though it might look like the ghost of a comma haunting the top of your sentence, this mark is actually used for possession, contractions, and headaches.
What is it?
Apostrophe '''''
In the sentence, "The llama in a top hat danced through the hallway," this is the complete subject- and yes, it includes that very fashionable hat.
The llama in a top hat
What is corpora?
Used in legal and academic contexts, this is the plural form of the Latin word “corpus,” often appearing in the phrase “corpuses of law” (incorrectly).
This punctuation mark is used to separate two independent clauses and to signal that you've probably outgrown commas-but haven't yet committed to full stops.
Semicolon ;