In the last set of examples above, you may have noticed that each fragment is longer than the similar complete sentence. The groups of words are otherwise the same, but the fragments have an extra word at the beginning. These words are called subordinating conjunctions. If a group of words that would normally be a [...]
2. It has a subject (someone or something that performs the action or serves as the main focus of the sentence). As with verbs, many sentences have more than one subject.
Examples:
Bob and Alexandra both want a promotion.
Yurika drafted a memo and sent it to the sales department.
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This lesson will help you distinguish between complete sentences and faulty sentences so that you can avoid writing sentence fragments, run-on sentences and comma splices.
Use a question mark after a word or group of words that asks a question even if it is not a complete sentence.
Examples:
What did you do last night?
Will you put out the trash?
Okay?
Use a period after an initial and after every part of an abbreviation, unless the abbreviation has become anacronym-an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word, such as AIDS-or a widely recognized name (TV, FBI, NATO, NASA). Titles-Mr., Ms., Dr., and so on-are also abbreviations that take periods. If the abbreviation [...]
This lesson shows you which punctuation marks to use to end sentences. These are sometimes referred to as “end marks.” It also shows you other ways in which periods are used.
Putting in capital letters where they don’t belong is as bad as leaving them out where they do belong. Watch for these capitalization traps.
•Avoid unnecessarily capitalizing compass directions; however, direction words that refer to a specific area of the country should be capitalized.
Proper adjectives are adjectives—that is, words that modify nouns—formed from a proper noun, often the name of a place. For instance, the proper noun Canada becomes the proper adjective Canadian when it modifies another noun, as in Canadian bacon. Note that the noun is not capitalized unless it is a proper noun in its own [...]
Choose the correctly capitalized version of each of the following pairs.
15. a. In Switzerland, some citizens speak French, and others speak German.
b. In switzerland, some citizens speak french, and others speak german.
16. a. Near a body of water called firth and forth, you can see Edinburgh, [...]
PROPER NOUNS, PART THREE
Category of Proper Nouns
Examples
cities, states, and governmental units
Des Moines, lowa; Barrow, Alaska; Republic of South Africa
streets, highways, and roads
Grand Avenue, Interstate 29, Deadwood Road
landmarks and geographical locations
Continental Divide, Grand Canyon
public areas and bodies of water
Superior Forest, Missouri River
institutions, organizations, and businesses
Dartmouth [...]
