Commas
Where does the comma go in this sentence?
"Traditionally Monica would dance all night."
after "Traditionally"
What is one type of floater that renames a noun?
a "noun cutter" or an "appositive"
How many spaces are after the semicolon
One
What always must come before a colon?
a complete sentence
Name the 16 Starter Words
As, If, When, While, Even though, Though, Before, After, Despite, Because, Whenever, During, Weather, In order, Since, Until
Where does the comma go in this sentence?
"However convenient the cookies were still too far away."
after "convenient"
How many spaces are before and after a dash?
None
What is unique about a semicolon as to what we can put on both sides?
A complete sentence must go on both sides
How many spaces follow a colon?
two
Name 8 phrase types
Starter Word -ed by
Prepositional -ed that
(When/While) -ing ing that
Who/Whom That/Which
Where do three commas go in this sentence?
"Hey your dad Henry told me you were gone.
after "Hey" and around "Henry"
What type of punctuation would go in the blank place?
Judy was getting married___she was very happy.
Semicolon
What is the capitalization rule for semicolons?
Never capitalize the the first word of the second sentence (unless begins with a proper noun).
What is the rule for capitalization after a colon?
You can capitalize or not capitalize
What is a floater?
a word or phrase in a sentence with commas around it because it can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence
Where do 4 commas go in this sentence?
"Peter of course was always late and he never helped with dishes argh!"
around "of course"
before "and"
after "dishes"
When do we use "Which" as opposed to "That" in a sentence?
When we are stating a fact
What type of punctuation is similar to a semicolon?
a comma
What are three elements you can put after a colon?
Word
Phrase
Sentence
When do we use "that" as opposed to "which" in a sentence?
when we are stating an opinion
Where do 5 commas go in this sentence?
"Before the game on Tuesday John was working out but he was never too tired entirely to play well boo rah!"
after "Tuesday"
after "out"
around "entirely"
after "well"
When using a colon and then a list, what form of punctuation do we use between a list of sentences?
A semicolon
Name the three types of techniques used with semicolons.
The Not Technique
The Take Out the Because Technique
The Parallelism Technique
What does this mean?
S1-S2-s1
A second sentence is placed inside the first sentence.
Name the two ways "who" turns to "whom" in a sentence.
when the subject is repeated after who
when a preposition precedes who