Created by Brodie McMeowface
almost 7 years ago
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Question | Answer |
Punctuation | Punctuation |
. | Full stop, used to mark the end of a sentence. (I died.) |
! | Exclamation mark, Used at the end of a sentence to mark emphasis or a sudden outcry. (Suddenly, I died!) |
? | Question mark, Used at the end of a question instead of a full stop. (Did I really die?) |
" " | Speech marks, Used to mark the beginning and the end of a passage of speech. (Brodie exclaimed,"I died!") |
( ) or - - | Parenthesis, used to add extra meaning to a sentence. (Brodie (whom recently drank bleach) died.) |
- | Hyphen, used in compound words or to indicate a break in thought. (Brodie Jean-Luke Rolph died.) |
; | Semicolon, used to connect two main clauses that are related. (Brodie was dead; he only died to prove god didn't exist.) |
: | Colon, used to start a list or sometimes to indicate one clause causes the other. (Brodie died from a multitude of things: he drank bleach, he slit his wrists and he jumped from a cliff!) |
' | Apostrophe, used to indicate the omission of a word or letter or to indicate belonging. (Brodie's dead body wouldn't be found) |
... | Ellipsis, used to jump from one phrase to another that is related, can be used at the end of paragraphs to indicate an explanation later. (So…what happened?) |
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