Punctuation Police
This punctuation mark is used at the end of a sentence that shows strong feeling or excitement.
What is an Exclamation Point?
Words like "big" and "large" that have the same meaning are called this.
What are Synonyms?
Besides the beginning of a sentence, this one-letter word must always be capitalized.
What is the word "I"?
Every complete sentence needs two main parts: a subject and one of these "action" words.
What is a Verb (or Predicate)?
This is the "base" of a word before you add any extra parts to the beginning or end.
What is a Root Word?
These marks are used like "bookends" around the words a character is speaking out loud.
What are Quotation Marks?
Words like "hot" and "cold" that have opposite meanings are called this.
What are Antonyms?
These two parts of a date, such as "Tuesday" or "April," must always start with a capital letter.
What are Days and Months?
This is the term for a "broken" sentence that is missing either a subject or a verb.
What is a Fragment?
Adding the prefix un- to the word "happy" changes the meaning to this.
What is Not Happy?
These are the three places you must put a comma in this list: I need eggs milk bread and juice.
What is after eggs, milk, and bread?
"Their," "There," and "They’re" are this type of word—they sound the same but have different spellings.
What are Homophones?
This is the specific name for a person, place, or thing that requires a capital letter.
What is a Proper Noun?
"I went to the park I had fun" is this type of error where two sentences are smashed together.
What is a Run-on?
This common suffix is added to a word to show that an action happened in the past.
What is -ed?
This mark is used to combine two words into one, like turning "do not" into "don't."
What is an Apostrophe?
In the sentence "The bat flew out of the cave," the word bat is a noun. In "He will bat the ball," it is a verb. This makes it this type of word.
What is a Multiple-Meaning Word (or Homograph)?
In the title "the tale of peter rabbit," these four words should be capitalized.
What are The, Tale, Peter, and Rabbit?
You can fix a run-on sentence by adding a comma and one of these joining words, like "and," "but," or "so."
What is a Conjunction?
If the suffix -less means "without," this word means "without a home."
What is Homeless?
Sentence Surgery: This sentence is missing two commas and a set of quotation marks: No I dont want to go outside said the grumpy cat.
What is... "No, I don't want to go outside," said the grumpy cat.
This is the meaning of the common idiom "It's a piece of cake."
What is "it is very easy"?
The Editor’s Challenge: Correct the four capitalization errors in this sentence: last tuesday, aunt sally and i traveled to yellowstone national park.
Last (beginning of sentence), Tuesday (day), Aunt Sally (proper name), and Yellowstone National Park (specific place).
Identify the fragment in this pair: A) The dog barked. B) Running through the mud.
What is B?
This prefix, found in words like "preview" or "pretest," means "before."
What is Pre-?