Language Skills Review Part 2 Flashcards
Commas and periods are placed _____ the quotation marks
In
Use _____ marks to enclose a direct quotation (a persons exacts words)!
Quotation
Semicolons and colons are placed _____ the quotation marks
Outside
A question mark or exclamation point is placed ____ the closing quotation marks id the quotation expresses a question or and exclamation otherwise, it is _____
Inside
Outside
Use single _____ marks to enclose a quotation within a quotation.
Quotation
Use _____ marks to enclose titles of articles, short stories, essays, poems, songs, and chapters or other parts of books
Quotations
Capitalize the _____ only on a letters salutation and closing
First word
Capitalize _____ and _____
Proper nouns and proper adjectives
_____ tiltes, historical events, regions, names of ships, trains, and aircrafts, names of nationalities, holidays, religions, and their followers
Capitalize
Only capitalize school subjects that are…
Languages or specific course names
Avoid using _____. It occurs when parts of a sentence has been presented as if we’re a complete sentence
Fragment sentences
Avoid using _____. It occurs when two or more complete sentences are strung together as if they were one complete sentence
Run on sentences
A _____ has no punctuation between the complete sentence
Fuse sentence
A _____ has only a comma between the complete sentence
Comma splice
Two ways to combine short sentences
Compound or complex
