Transcript PUNCTUATION - MVUSD Technology Curriculum Team

PUNCTUATION
THE MOST IMPORTANT MARKS OF PUNCTUATION ARE:
. PERIOD (FULL STOP)
, COMMA
? QUESTION MARK
! EXCLAMATION POINT
-- DASH
- HYPHEN
‘ APOSTROPHE
; SEMICOLON
: COLON
“” DOUBLE QUOTATION
MARKS
‘’ SINGLE QUOTATION
MARKS
() PARENTHESES
[] BRACKETS
Quotation Marks,
Apostrophes, and
Parenthesis
QUOTATION MARKS
1) TO ENCLOSE EVERY DIRECT QUOTATION AND EACH PART OF AN
INTERRUPTED QUOTATION:
e.g. “What will my starting salary be?” I asked the manager.
“Well,” he replied, “I’m not sure.”
2) IN A DIALOGUE USE A SEPARATE PARAGRAPH FOR EACH CHANGE
OF SPEAKER:
e.g. “Dad,” cried Neil.
“There, there, it’s going to be just fine,” his father said.
3) TO ENCLOSE WORDS WITH A WIDELY DIFFERENT LEVEL OF
USAGE:
e.g. The person who has “had it” so far is Saddam.
4) TO ENCLOSE CHAPTER HEADINGS AND THE TITLES OF ARTICLES:
e.g. Grant Wood’s famed painting, “American Gothic,” was recently
reproduced in American Heritage.
5) USE SINGLE QUOTATION MARKS TO ENCLOSE A QUOTATION
WITHIN A QUOTATION: e.g. The coach said, ”When you say, ‘I’ll be
there on time,’ I expect you to mean what you say.”
QUOTATION MARKS (cont.)
PLACE QUOTATION MARKS CORRECTLY WITH
REFERENCE TO OTHER MARKS!!!
1)
2)
3)
THE COMMA AND THE PERIOD ALWAYS COME
INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS.
A QUESTION MARK, EXCLAMATION POINT, OR DASH
COMES OUTSIDE QUOTATION MARKS UNLESS IT IS
PART OF THE QUOTATION.
THE SEMICOLON AND COLON COME OUTSIDE
QUOTATION MARKS.
THE APOSTROPHE
HAS THREE USES:
1)
TO FORM THE POSSESSIVE CASE OF NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
2)
TO INDICATE OMISSION OF A LETTER FROM WORDS OR A FIGURE
FROM NUMERALS
3)
TO INDICATE THE PLURALS OF LETTERS, NUMERALS, SYMBOLS,
ABBREVIATIONS.
USE THE APOSTROPHE
1) ADD S TO FORM THE POSSESSIVE CASE OF A NOUN NOT ENDING IN S:
e.g. children’s; town’s
2) TO FORM THE POSSESSIVE CASE OF A PLURAL NOUN ENDING IN S:
e.g. boys’; ladies’
3) ALONE OR WITH S TO FORM THE POSSESSIVE OF NOUNS ENDING IS S:
e.g. Robert Burns’ /Burns’s; (RULE: WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE)
4) ADD S IN THE LAST ELEMENT OF COMPOUND NOUNS:
e.g. my son-in-law’s boat; King Henry IV’s funeral; somebody else’s ticket
5) TO SHOW THAT LETTERS OF FIGURES HAVE BEEN OMITTED (taken out):
e.g. aren’t; shouldn’t; The Civil War was fought 1861-’65.
Punctuation: Parentheses ( )
Parentheses always come in pairs. They
often enclose a bit of information that may
not be directly related to the main
sentence.
 Example: My Language Arts class (the
busiest place on Earth) has a lot of
homework.
 Example: Taking good notes (which is a
valuable tool) is completely up to each
student.
