Punctuation/Capitalization
The type of noun that is always capitalized
What is a proper noun?
The lights ____ very bright. (present be form)
What is are?
The most obvious case in which you must write out a number
What is When it is one or two words.
To recline (present)
John G. Patton was a Scottish Missionary.
What is a predicate nominative?
The words that have to be capitalized:
The play, life with father, is based on a book by clarence day.
What are Life, With, Father, Clarence, Day?
His research on harmful disease _____a public need.
What is [variety of an appropriate singular verb]
How you refer to the person who works with nurses if you are writing her name in a sentence.
What is Dr.
To recline (past tense)
What is lay?
Grandma baked cupcakes.
What is a direct object?
Place commas:
On November 1 2004 I had a baby girl Sophia May.
What is after 1; after 2004; after girl
Fifty cents ____ not enough. (past state of being verb)
What is was.
The reason you write out the number in the sentence:
Four thousand, thirty-two actors are out of work.
What is
Because it is the beginning of a sentence
To set something down (present)
Hard work gives the diligent person opportunities.
What is an indirect object?
Capitalize:
I teach english at ames christian school.
What are English, Ames, Christian, School
Macaroni and cheese ___ my favorite meal.
What is is?
The reason this is wrong:
I went to bed at 11:00 p.m. in the evening.
What is
p.m. and in the evening are redundant
To set something down (past participle)
Laid
Find two complements and name them.
We gave Oliver a surprise party on Saturday.
What are Oliver (i.o.), party (d.o.) and Saturday (o.p.)?
Punctuate:
Although one fourth of the class voted to have chicken at the class party didn't a three fourths majority vote for pizza asked Oliver
Neither Michigan nor Minnesota ____ on the coast.
What is is?
The correct way to write when Judah was taken into captivity by Babylon.
No, I do not expect you to know the year, but I do expect you to know the general idea of where it falls.
What is 586 B.C?
How a participle is used
What is an adjective?
Find three complements and name them.
The first emperor of the Qin dynasty left the famous terra-cotta warriors in the underground mausoleum outside Xian.
dynasty (o.p.) warriors (d.o.) mausoleum, (o.p.), Xian (o.p.)