Dashes/Ellipses

Which of these is an en dash?

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Which of these is an em dash?

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

Which of these is a hyphen?

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Which punctuation mark do we need?

Please read pages 97___102.

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Ellipsis is shown by which symbol?

• ""

• ()

• .

• ...

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CCSS.L.8.2A

CCSS.L.8.2B

An ellipsis is used to ___.

• shorten a quoted passage by omitting  words or phrases
• pause or hesitate in the middle of a sentence
• indicate an incomplete thought
• all answers are correct

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CCSS.L.8.2A

CCSS.L.8.2B

Which quotation uses an ellipsis correctly to indicate Olive's incomplete thought?  

• “I can't stand . . . Olive."
• “I can’t stand that . . . girl." 
• “I can’t stand          that girl . . ."
• “I can’t stand that girl,” Olive said. “She’s so . . . I hate her.”

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CCSS.L.8.2A

CCSS.L.8.2B

Which sentence(s) used an ellipsis the correct way?
A. If only she had . . . Oh, it doesn’t matter now.
B. I wasn’t really . . . well, what I mean . . . see, the thing is . . . I didn’t mean it.
C. She opened the door . . . and saw . . . a cake!

• A and C
• just B
• none of them
• all of them

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CCSS.L.8.2A

CCSS.L.8.2B

"These emotions can transform,... and consequently they have been understood as keys to the dynamics of emotional illness." What do the ellipses indicate?

• quotation

• an unfinished thought

• omitted text from a quotation

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CCSS.L.8.2A

CCSS.L.8.2B

Which quotation used ellipses in a correct way?

• I should not have said that.

  ..I’m sorry.

• I should not have said that ...I'm sorry.

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CCSS.L.8.2A

CCSS.L.8.2B