Punctuation vocabulary

Signals the end of sentences

• Guides reading with symbols ? ! .

• end marks

• commas

• hyphens

• apostrophes

Reasons when to use-- Series or list; Intro word or direct names

• Prepositional phrases; ED or ING up front

• Interruption; Transitions; Appositives non-essential

• end marks

• hyphens

• semicolons

• commas

• Reasons when to use--Before FANBOYS when they join compound sentences;

• After SWABIs when they introduce a clause; and

• Set off non-essential adjectives clauses (who, whom, whose, which, that)

• end marks

• commas

• colons

• dashes

• Reasons when to use--Before FANBOYS when joining simple sentences; 

• After greeting/closing of letters; and To prevent misreading

• end marks

• apostrophes

• commas

• italics

• Reasons when to use--

• Dates

• City, state

• Degrees

• Too = also

• Quotes

• Letters

• Prevent misreading

• end marks

• commas

• dashes

• quotation marks

• Use to join parts of a compound sentence without and, or, but

• or Join long main clauses

• or Separate clauses with transitions

• end marks

• commas

• semicolons

• colons

Use to introduce a list that ends a sentence,

separate time ( hour & minute),

and after greeting in a business letter.

• end marks

• commas

• semicolons

• colons

Use for short forms of works for titles of short story, essay, short poem,

song, magazine or newspaper article, or book chapter

• colons

• commas

• italics

• quotation marks

Use for the long form works of title of a book, play, long poem, film,

television series, magazine, newspaper, or work of art

• commas

• semicolons

• quotations marks

• italics

• Shows possession,

• Shows missing letters in a contraction,

• Signals the plural of letters, numbers, or words

• colons

• apostrophes

• quotation marks

• commas