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Antigone Skills and Explanations
Day 1
Punctuating titles
Put quotations marks around the titles of essays, short stories, poems, one-act plays,
songs, newspaper articles and magazine articles.
Underline or italicize the titles of book-length works, book-length poems, full-length
plays, album or CD titles, titles of movies and names of newspapers and magazines.
Use of a Colon before a List
One use of a colon is to introduce a list. Make sure not to use a colon
directly after a preposition or a verb. If you wish to use a colon add the words
the following after the verb or preposition.
Day 2
Commonly Misused Words: Doubt with But
When one uses the word doubt, do not follow it with the word but.
A Lot
A lot is written as two words rather than as one.
Wordy Sentence
Since writing is meant to communicate, sentences should do so
in a clear way. Adding unnecessary words can confuse the
audience. Thus, eliminate all words that do not add new
meaning.
Day 3
Apostrophe with Joint Possession
When two or more nouns own the same thing, one uses an apostrophe after the
final noun.
Leon and Rodolphe's car would mean that they both own the same car.
When two or more nouns own different things, one uses apostrophes after each
noun.
Leon's and Rodolphe's cars would mean that they both own different cars.
Choppy Sentences
In order to make it more pleasant to read, sentence variety--variations in
length and sentence type--adds ease of reading and interest to a piece of
writing. A series of short, simple sentences should be combined to add
variety and make writing more concise.
Use of Ellipsis
If you leave words out of a quotation, use an ellipsis mark to indicate the omitted
words. If this occurs at the end of the sentence, add a period, creating four
periods. Remember that this punctuation goes inside the quotation marks.
Day 4
Adding -ed to Words Ending in -y
When adding -ed to words ending in -y, change the -y to -i and add -ed.
Exclamation Point
The exclamation point is used after an interjection or at the end of a
sentence showing strong emotion.
Interjection
An interjection is a word that expresses emotion. It is either set off
from sentences by commas or made a sentence by itself followed by
an exclamation point.
Day 5
Spelling Out Time
When the abbreviation A.M. or P.M. does not follow a time, spell out
the time.
The execution is at 2 o'clock. Incorrect
The execution is at two o'clock. Correct
Subordinate Clause
A subordinate clause--sometimes called a dependent clause--will begin with a
subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun and will contain both a subject and
a verb. This combination of words will not form a complete sentence. It will
instead make a reader want additional information to finish the thought. If it
comes at the beginning of the sentence, put a comma after it. If it comes at the
end of a sentence, do not put a comma before it.
Double-negatives: Hardly and Scarcely
Scarcely and hardly are already negative adverbs. To add another
negative term is redundant, because in English only one negative is
ever used at a time.
They found scarcely any animals on the island. (not scarcely no...)
Hardly anyone came to the party. (not hardly no one...)