Punctuation Flashcards
What is the use of the commas in these sentences?
Mr Cherry was a warm, hospitable man.
We will need hammer, nails, screws and bolts.
She stopped, stared and ran.
Listing adjectives, nouns or verbs.
The use of comma in these sentences:
We queued for the concert for four hours, but we didn’t manage to get any tickets.
When he saw the pirate ship on the horizon, the captain gave the alarm.
The best horses in the race were Pacemaker, Starlight, and Thunder and Lighting.
pauses during long sentences.
Commas in the following are there to?
I felt, moreover, that he was being totally unreasonable.
The book was, without a doubt, he best she had read.
Harry, our start player, broke his leg yesterday.
to insert inessential words and phrases into the sentence without changing the general feel of the sentence. Also to describe person talking about before saying what you wanted to about him.
what are inverted commas used for?
Spoken words
quotations
titles
irony or sarcasm
When is a colon used?
Before a quotation or someone speaks.
break sentence second half explains, expands or summarises what comes in the first half
introduce lists
How are semi-colons used?
Replace a full stop, linking two complete sentences into one. (sentences are usually linked)
break up lists like a comma but when the item is particularly long.
often used after words like “therefore” “However” etc link tow independent clauses
Double Dashes and brackets
insert extra information into the sentence, not always needed.
Single dash
To put afterthought added on at the end sentence
pause dramatic effect
separate two identical words in sentence
after listing items
Hyphen
Half length dash
used to connect words
compound words
make group of words into expression
attach prefix to word
two words joined together same letters e.g re-echo
vague words like man eating tiger= man-eating tiger
