영어공부 12탄 (punctuation #26~# 38)

New Unit -Punctuation

#26. Use a semicolon to join the parts of a compound sentence when a conjunction (and, but, or) is not used.

I walked home from school; my bus never showed up.

#27. The exclamation point is used to express strong feeling, but you should never use more than one!

Oh no! I'm running late for school!

#28. Use a colon to introduce a list of items that ends a sentence.

My mom wants me to buy the following items: Cinnamon Toast Crunch, bananas, and eggs.

#29. Use quotation marks with both parts of a divided quotation. (Don't capitalize the second part!)

"This softball throw," explained Lauren, "took me one week to learn."

#30. Periods are placed inside a quote when it ends the sentence.

Commas are placed inside the quotation marks when it starts a sentence.

Mrs. Weir said, " Please behave on the bus."

"Please behave on the bus," Mrs. Weir said.

#31. Use quotations to identify titles of poems, short stories, songs, magazine/nespaper articles.

The teacher read the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost to the class.

#32. Underline the titles of books, movies, newpapers, magazines, and other long works.

One of Mrs.Kautz's favorite novels is Flipped.

#33. An apostrophe is used to form a contraction.

I can't believe my cousin took that dare.

#34. Use an apostrophe and an s('s) to show singular possessive.

My brother's Lego collection is quite impressive.

#35. Use an apostrophe and an "s" to from the possessive of a plural noun that does not end in s.

The geese's feathers were scattered all over the barn.

#36. Use an apostrophe alone to form the possessive of a plural noun that ends in s.

The cars' engines sounded like they need to be fixed.

#37. Use an apostrophe to show missing numbers in a year.

The class of '19 will be celebrating their prom in May.

#38.Use an apostrophe to form the plural of a letter, number, or symbol.

Yes, quizzes does have two z's