'Colon sentence' presentation slideshows

Conquering the Comma

Conquering the Comma. A workshop brought to you by the Purdue University Writing Lab. What Is a Comma?. A comma is a punctuation mark that indicates a pause is needed in a sentence. Commas help to clarify meaning for the reader. ,. Clauses and Phrases.

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Welcome back

Welcome back. Exercise books. Your name Subject Mr. Dobbins Group. Room. Sentence Toolkit. Exclamatory!. Compound = two independent clauses joined by a co-ordinator. !. Fragment. ; and / but /so. No verb. Brackets (humorous aside). Colon sentence. :.

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Easter Revision

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What do you see?

She took everything in then, and I with her: the house with the sloping roof, the evergreens leaning over it, the dark shadow that was the woodpile on the front porch. -Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods.

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