Parts of Speech and Abraham Lincoln TN Language Arts Checks for Understanding

On the following slides are sentences that contain mistakes in capitalization and punctuation. On your paper, write the sentences correctly. Use the handout on capitalization and punctuation to cite the reason for your correction.

Abraham had four children; Robert Todd Lincoln Edward Lincoln Willie Lincoln Tad Lincoln but only Robert Todd Lincoln survived into adulthood?

Lincoln was fond of pets he owned horses cats dogs and a turkey Lincoln’s dog Fido

The little girl from Westfield, New York, named Grace Bedell, promised to get her brothers to vote for Lincoln if Mr. Lincoln grew a beard. She insisted that he “would be much improved in appearance, provided you would cultivate whiskers.”

After Lincoln's election and before his inauguration, the state of South Carolina proclaimed its withdrawal from the Union.

Delivered by President Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at the dedication of a memorial cemetery on November 19, 1863, it is now familiarly known as the "Gettysburg Address."

President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in McClellan's tent. Lincoln sitting with hat on table

On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South

In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.

An unconscious Lincoln was carried across the street to the Petersen House and into the room of a War Department clerk. The bullet had entered behind the left ear and ripped a path through the left side of his brain, mortally wounding him. He died the next morning.

“I was born Feb. 12, 1809 in Hardin county kentucky, my parents were both born in Virginia” ~Abraham Lincoln

On January 1, 1863 he issued the emancipation proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the confederacy.

Lincoln wore high top hats, like this one purchased in Washington, D.C. The last time he put it on was to go to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, the night he was assasinated.