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Punctuation Make It Your Ally; It’s Powerful. Punctuation We’ll Cover Today ▪ Commas (,) ▪ Semicolons (;) ▪ Colons (:) ▪ Dashes (--) ▪ Hyphens (-)

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1 Punctuation Make It Your Ally; It’s Powerful

2 Punctuation We’ll Cover Today ▪ Commas (,) ▪ Semicolons (;) ▪ Colons (:) ▪ Dashes (--) ▪ Hyphens (-)

3 The Six Most-Common Comma Rules  Between Two Independent Clauses Patrick loves baseball, and he coaches his son’s team.  FANBOYS: For, And, Nor, But, Yet, So  For an Introduction In the morning, she runs with her dog. When she lied, he left her.  For a List or Series We need punch, balloons, and cupcakes.  For a Nonessential Element The park, which has a lake, is a mile away.

4 Commas Rules... ▪ For Direct Address Lorelei, I want you to come here. I want you, Lorelei, to come here. I want you to come here, Lorelei.  Between Two Adjectives Before a Noun The sweet, old lady is rich and will die soon. The red brick building is beautiful.

5 Semicolons ▪ To Separate Two Independent Clauses With No Conjunction Semeli loves to cook; she even takes cooking classes.  To Separate Items That Have Internal Punctuation We visited Dublin, Ireland, Barcelona, Spain, Rome, Italy. What’s wrong with the above sentence? We visited Dublin, Ireland; Barcelona, Spain; Rome, Italy. We should have these items on hand: plates, cups, forks; paper, pens, erasers; candy, cupcakes, ice cream.

6 Colons ▪ To Introduce a Long Quote ▪ When the Second Independent Clause Explains the First She loved her class: It made her think, and she learned.  To Introduce a List but It Can’t Follow a Verb We need these items for the office party: cups, plates, and forks. We need: cups, plates and forks.

7 Hyphen ▪ To Unify Elements second-place team tenth-anniversary party first-period class

8 Dashes ▪ To Separate for Emphasis Exhausted – she collapsed after work. He asked her to marry him – finally! That student – the one in the green shirt – drives me nuts!


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