Commas Semicolons Colons Hyphens and Dashes

Introduce a list

• COLONS

• dashes

• parentheses

• semicolons

• hyphens

Used between two complete sentences that are related.

• colon

• semicolon

• hypen

• dash

used in some compound words and with some prefixes (all-, ex-, self-) and suffixes.

• COLONS

• DASHES

• HYPHENS

• PARENTHESES

Found before a summarizing phrase or clause that follows a

list.

• PARENTHESES

• COLONS

• HYPHENS

• DASHES

after a complete sentence to direct attention to an appositive or an

illustrative sentence

• Semicolon

• Colon

• Comma

• Dash

interrupts the flow of the sentence

• Hyphen

• Italic

• Dash

• Colon

• Semicolon

separate two adjectives when the order of the adjectives is interchangeable.

• Comma

• Colon

• Semicolon

• Hyphen

• yes

____ followed by a FANBOY or _____ can be used interchangeable at times

• Colon

• Comma

• Dash

• Hyphen

• Semicolon

_________ is used with numbers and

to divide a word between syllables at the end of a line.

Use a ________ to signal a dramatic shift in tone or thought.