Punctuation Perfection
This punctuation mark is used at the end of a sentence to show excitement.
What is an exclamation point?
The girl _ eating ice cream. Fill in the blank with the correct form of 'is' or 'are'.
What is 'is'?
Spell the word that means the opposite of 'yes'.
What is 'no'?
This type of sentence gives a command or makes a request.
What is an imperative sentence?
You find a repeated word in a sentence, you should do this.
What is delete it?
You need to use this punctuation to show a pause in a sentence.
What is a comma?
In the sentence 'He run fast,' what word should be changed?
What is 'run' (should be 'runs')?
A word meaning to look quickly that rhymes with ‘answer’ is spelled this way.
What is 'glance'?
Identify the subject in the sentence: 'The dog barked loudly.'
What is 'The dog'?
When you change the order of words in a sentence to improve clarity, you are doing this.
What is revising?
This punctuation is needed to show that words have been spoken by someone.
What are quotation marks?
In the sentence 'The cat chased its tail,' identify the pronoun.
What is 'its'?
Correctly spell the word which describes very cold weather, that begins with an 'f'.
What is 'freezing'?
Change "She is reading" to past tense.
What is 'She was reading'?
Adding more details to a sentence to make it clearer is called this.
What is elaborating?
This type of punctuation can join two closely related sentences together.
What is a semicolon?
The word that describes an action in a sentence is called this.
What is a verb?
The action of getting ready for an event is spelled like this.
What is 'preparing'?
This is the term for a sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
When changing a verb to match the subject of a sentence, it is called this.
What is subject-verb agreement?
You use these to show possession or to form contractions.
What are apostrophes?
This term describes adjectives when they are used to compare three or more things.
What is superlative?
A word for something that's hard to believe or amazing, starting with an ‘i' is spelled this way.
What is 'incredible'?
Rewrite the sentence in correct order: 'Ran quickly the boy towards the shop.'
What is 'The boy ran quickly towards the shop'?
This process involves checking the consistency of style and tone throughout a text.
What is editing for cohesion?