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Flashcards by orbin morales, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| White Dove Private Bilingual Institute Name: Orbin Morales Teacher: Sthepfany Castro Class: Grammar Grade: 11th Date:22-Oct-2021 | |
| End marks | Use a period to end a declarative sentence or an imperative sentence. Use a period to end an indirect question. Use a period to end a polite request disguised as a question. |
| Question Mark | Use a question mark to end an interrogative sentence. |
| Excamation point | Use an exclamation point to end an exclamatory sentence. Use an exclamation point to end an imperative sentence strongly stated. |
| Comma | Use a comma and a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, nor, for, yet) to join two independent clauses. Use a comma and a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, nor, for, yet) to join two independent clauses. |
| Semicolon | Use a semicolon between independent clauses if you do not use a comma and a coordinating conjunction. A semicolon may be used between independent clauses even with a coordinating conjunction (1) if there are commas within the clauses or (2) if the clauses are long. |
| Colon | Use a colon before listed items, especially when announced by such words as as follows or the following. Do not use a colon to introduce a list that is the complement of a verb or the object of a preposition. Use a colon to introduce a statement or quotation that is formally announced. |
| Dash | Use a dash after a series of words or phrases that give de tails about the statement that is to follow. Use a dash to indicate a break in faltering speech or an unfinished construction. I—I—think that—that—something. |
| Parentheses | Use parentheses to enclose brief confirmatory information. Use parentheses to enclose confidential comments to the reader and supplementary or explanatory information added merely for clarity. |
| Brackets | Use brackets to enclose editorial corrections, comments, or explanations in quoted matter. Use brackets, when necessary, as parentheses within parentheses. |
| Quotation Marks | Use quotation marks to enclose the exact words of a speaker (a direct quotation). |
| Italics | Italicize or underline the titles of books, magazines, newspapers, plays, works of art (with the exception of monuments), and the names of trains, ships, submarines, aircraft, and spacecraft. |
| Hyphen | Use a hyphen if you must divide a word at the end of a line. Use a hyphen in compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine. |
| Apostrophe | Use an apostrophe to form the possessive case of nouns. To form the possessive case of a singular noun, first write the singular spelling of the word. Then add an apostrophe and s. (’s) |
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