Punctuation

Punctuation

by Mrs. Ingram

​Appositive Phrase

• a group of words

• indicates when or where the action happens

Multiple Choice

Which one is the appositive phrase?

Tim, my 4 year old son, goes to pre-kindergarten. 

• Tim

• My 4 year old son

• Prekindergarten

• goes to

Relative Pronoun

• ​Is a noun or noun phrase

• ​It renames the noun

• ​Who, whom, whose, which, that

Relative Clause

• a dependent clause that gives more information about a noun

Multiple Choice

Which one is the relative clause?

Mrs. Ingram, who graduated college, now teaches at San Jacinto Intermediate. 

• who graduated college

• Mrs. Ingram

• Now teaches

• San Jacinto Intermediate

Comma

Used to:

• ​to separate the noun and relative clauses

  separate the nouns and their titles

• separate cities and states

• separate introductory phrases

Colon

introduces:

• a list

• explanation

• quotation

that follows an independent clause

Semi-colon

• ​joins two independent clauses that are related

​Perenthesis

• ​sets apart extra information

• information set apart is not important to the meaning of a sentence