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Title: Chap. 29 punctuation

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Chap. 29 punctuation

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Schedule for this week

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Overview

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End-of-sentence punctuation

Period
to end a sentence
to indicate abbreviations
e.g. for example
chap. chapter
p. 1 page 1
Nov. November
St. street
Usually, no periods are used for abbreviations
that use only capital letters FBI, ISU, UCLA

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Exercise 1 (p. 318)

For example, when a department store has a
bargain sale at the end of the summer. You may
buy expensive clothes at a discount price.
For example, when a department store has a
bargain sale at the end of the summer, you may
buy expensive clothes at a discount price.

Since you couldnt decide what I should major in
I just took a course that was required.
Since you couldnt decide what I should major in,
I just took a course that was required.

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Semicolon

A semicolon is used to indicate the end of one
sentence when two sentences are so closely
related that they are combined into one.
He actually likes babies he even wants to bring
one home.

A semicolon can also be used in place of a comma
to separate items in a list, particularly when
the items are long or when they have commas
within them.
I have been to Ames, Iowa Toledo, Ohio and
Urbana, Illinois.
I have been to three states including Iowa,
Ohio, and Illinois.

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Comma (five uses)

Before the subject
Last year, I came to Iowa State University.
(She) Being a little late to class, she sneaked
into the classroom through the backdoor.
Being too delicious, I ate all of the fruit
salad. (X)

between items in a list
I like to play tennis, soccer, and basketball.
This is an inexpensive, clean, and comfortable
hotel.
At last, the teacher sat down at the piano, took
out several books of music, and began to play.

around inserted material
------------------, inserted phrase,
-------------------.
----------------------------------------------,
inserted phrase.
Doufu, the Chinese name for bean curd, has been
made in China for about 2000 years.
Chinese restaurants use a lot of Doufu, the
Chinese name for bean curd.

Separate independent and dependent clauses when
they are connected with a coordinating
conjunction (and, or, but, nor, so , for, yet)
I have been working on this math project for
nearly two hours, but I havent found a good
solution to it.
John didnt prepare for the mid-term well, so he
didnt pass the exam.

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Never use a comma in these situations

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Colon

A colon introduces explanatory and listed items.
After a sleepless night, the senator made her
decision she would not seek re-election.
Music is more than a mechanical arrangement of
sounds it is an expression of deep feeling and
ethical values.
The use of these punctuation marks often confuses
students comma, semicolon, colon, hyphen, and
dash.
There are four national sports in the Unites
States football, basketball, baseball, and ice
hockey.

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Dashes and parentheses

Dashes and parentheses signal an interruption in
a sentence. They serve to set off additional
information, to present a kind of aside. Often
they present explanations, examples, and
comments.
Another kind of mistruth the white lie is
both a popular and often an acceptable type of
communication.
Doufu called tofu in Japan and now elsewhere
arrived as one of the things associated with new
religion.
White lies are defined (at least by those who
tell them) as being unmalicious.

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Dash

Use a dash to emphasize information
Last night Nicole won the lottery in her
dreams.
Use a dash to indicate a break in thought.
I told Chun Hyeon or was it Chang Hyeon that
I visited my wife during the Thanksgiving break.

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Parentheses

Use parentheses to set off words, phrases,
clauses, or sentences which are used by way of
explanation or comment.
Suzanne has three pets (two birds and a dog).
We read Austens Northanger Abbey (her first
novel) in our Eighteenth-Century literature
class.

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apostrophe

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Quotation marks

Quotation marks occur at the beginning and end of
directly quoted material, repeating the exact
words that were spoken or written.
He said, Lets go.
The family cheered my decision, saying it had
true spirit.

Quotations marks are also used to indicate that
one or more words are being used with a special
meaning.
The soybean had become gold from the soil.

If the quotation is interrupted and then
continues in your sentence, do not capitalize the
second part of the quotation.
He likes to talk about football, she said,
especially when the Super Bowl is coming up.

Indirect quotations are not exact words but
rather rephrasing or summaries of another
persons words. Do not use quotation marks for
indirect quotations.
According to Mary, Tommy loves to talk about
football particularly on the Super Bowl Sunday.

Use single quotation marks for a quotation
enclosed inside another quotation.
The agricultural reporter for the newspaper
explained, When I talked to the Allens last
week, they said, We refuse to use that
pesticide.

If you leave words out of a quotation, use an
ellipsis mark to indicate the omitted words.
The welfare agency representative said, We are
unable to help every familybecause we dont have
the funds to do so.

If you need to insert something within a
quotation, use a pair of brackets to enclose the
addition.
The welfare agency representative explained that
they are unable to help every family that they
would like to help.

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