ENGLISH / LANGUAGE ARTS

LESSON

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Questions About

Punctuation and Capitalization

Use the example and the steps below to learn how to answer questions about punctuation and capitalization.

Lesson

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Read the following example and answer choices. How can the punctuation and capitalization be corrected in the sentence below? My dad asked can you help me and your mother with the garden next week? A. Put a capital D in dad and a comma after me. B. Put a comma after asked and a capital C in can. C. Put a comma after mother and a capital M in mother. D. Put a colon after dad and a capital G in garden.
Read the question and the answer choices carefully. For each choice, give a reason for your selection. (A) ______________________________________________ (B) ______________________________________________

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(C _______________________________________________ (D) ______________________________________________ Step

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Eliminate the answer choices that are least likely to be correct.

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Of the remaining choices, which is the correct answer?

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ENGLISH / LANGUAGE ARTS

Practice
Circle the answer that tells how each sentence below can be corrected.

1. Georgia OKeeffes paintings represent the New Mexico desert. A. add an apostrophe to OKeeffes B. capitalize paintings C. add a comma after represent D. capitalize desert 2. Tara, an accomplished chef made the entre; Kevin provided appetizers and dessert. A. capitalize chef B. place a comma after chef C. change the semicolon after entre to a comma D. capitalize dessert 3. Arizona was admitted to the Union as the forty eighth state. A. place a comma after admitted B. change Union to union C. add a hyphen between forty and eighth D. capitalize state 4. My aunt fixed a salad of tomatoes, lettuce and radishes for the Labor Day picnic. A. capitalize aunt B. place a comma after lettuce C. place a comma after radishes D. capitalize picnic

5. The pioneers brought with them the following items, sugar, soap, nails, flour, and seeds for planting. A. capitalize pioneers B. place a comma after them C. change the comma after items to a colon D. capitalize planting 6. West Side story is a modern version of Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet. A. capitalize story B. capitalize modern C. use quotation marks around Romeo and Juliet D. capitalize and
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7. Have you read The Road Not Taken, a poem by Robert Frost. A. capitalize you B. underline the title of the poem C. capitalize poem D. replace the period at the end of the sentence with a question mark 8. The Jacksons spent some time in the south on their last vacation. A. add an apostrophe to Jacksons B. capitalize south C. add a comma after south D. capitalize vacation

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