CP English Punctuation
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Parenthesis
-
Whisper. They enclose interuptions too extravagant for a pair of commas to hold.
Commas and periods go out
parenthesis. - Dash
- Shout. They enclose interruptions too extravagant for a pair of commas to hold.
- Brakcets
- Use to put your own words within a quotation to make the quote suit your own context, or explanation.
- Quotations within quotations.
-
When you are quoting something with quotes
" 'Blah, Blah, Blah,' she said." - Ellipsis
- When elimating a part of a quote.
- Underline
- books, plays, movies, long poems, ships,trains, airplanes and magazines.
- Quotations
- titles within books and magazines, statues, paintings, foreign words
- Semicolon
- Stop sign.
- Colon:
- Green Light
-
Apostrophe all singular possesives
A Few Plurals -
Yeat's poems
the men's room (potty) - Apostrophe clarify clusters of nouns
- girls'basketball team's popcorn sale
- Apostrophe indicate omissions
-
class of '97
can't - apostrophe when adding a grammatical eding to a number, letter, sign or abbreviation
- 1970's
- apostrophe units of time and money
-
a week's vacation
a dollar's worth
two dollars'worth - periods
- after a sentence
- comma
- to join independent clauses.
- comma - series
- between all items in a series.
- commas set off
- openers and afterthoughts
- commas enclose
- insertions that can be let out
- semicolon before conjuctive adverbs
- therefore, moreover, nonetheless
- colon to introduce an itemized series
- I love three things:Greg,Jon, and Jeff.
- colon to use to speed a thought through an intersection
- He lived for one thing: money.
- semicolon use to pull related sentences together
- She liked him; he was good to her; he had money in the bank.
- semicolon use as a separator of contrast
- the semicolon is a stop sign; the colon a green light.
- semicolon use to unscramble a long line phrases and clauses
- the tentative book list includes: Brave New World by Alduous Huxley; Dangling Man by Sual Bellow; and 1984 by George Orwell.