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3. The exclamation point at
the end of a sentence signals emotion. |
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English |
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Get lost! |
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Please leave! |
4. The comma is used in a sentence
to separate ideas. |
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English |
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I need to purchase apples,
oranges, and pears. |
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Could John,
Jane, and Sally step forward. |
5. Words enclosed in parentheses
provide extra information. |
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English |
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I need to purchase apples,
oranges, and pears. (I'm on a diet.) |
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Could John,
Jane, and Salley step forward.
(We need volunteers.) |
6. We used quotation marks
to enclose stated words. |
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English |
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John said, "I
will not go!" |
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"I'm
confined to the use of a wheelchair,"
said Tim. |
7. A semicolon is used to join
two related thoughts of equal importance. |
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English |
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The new bus arrived;
we put it into immediate service. |
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Today is payday;
our cheques are deposited directly to our banks. |
A semicolon ";"
is used before a word that inroduces a list. |
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The fruit on sale today are;
apples, peaches, pears, and oranges. |
8. A colon ":"
is a stop to let the reader know something important is coming. |
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English |
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Please complete the following jobs:
file reporting, interviews, and follow-ups. |
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Administrators are responsible
for: safety, moral, scheduling, and wages. |
9. An ellipsis is used to indicate
the omission of words. |
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English |
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"... is not responsible." |
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"Government
is not... for everything."
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"...for
everything." |
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