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ACT English: Punctuation Drill 3, Problem 1. How should this sentence be changed so that it is grammatically correct?
- Punctuation / Colons, Hyphens, and Apostrophes
- Product Type / ACT English
- Handwriting, Capitalization, Punctuation / Punctuation Marks
- Sentence Structure / Improper Punctuation
- Conventions / Demonstrate command of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
- Conventions / Demonstrate command of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
- Conventions / Demonstrate command of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
Transcript
- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Company Policy. In order to balance out
- 00:08
Casual Fridays, we will be instituting Extra-Formal Mondays.
- 00:12
How should this sentence be changed so that it is grammatically correct?
- 00:16
The employees were surprised: by the decision no change in company policy.
- 00:31
Looks like we're throwing regular colons into the mix now. Nothing "semi" about these guys.
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- 00:35
But, what do colons do? Like, when they aren't the eyes of an emoticon smiley face?
- 00:41
A colon is used before an explanation, or a list. The part before the colon has to be
- 00:46
an independent clause, meaning it has to stand on its own.
- 00:49
Let's look through the answers to first see which ones start with an independent clause,
- 00:53
and have a list after the colon. A has a complete independent clause, but the
- 00:58
part after the colon is not an explanation. Instead, it's a continuation of the sentence.
- 01:03
What about B? We're back to a semicolon here. Well remember, both sides of the semicolon
- 01:08
have to be able to stand alone as sentences. The second half doesn't look particularly
- 01:12
promising. It's definitely not a complete sentence. Let's move on.
- 01:17
Does C work? Let's first look at whether or not the first clause is a complete sentence.
- 01:22
The words "no change" at the end just hang on to the sentence, so, no.
- 01:27
That leaves us with D. The first part is a complete independent clause, and the second
- 01:31
half explains the decision. Bingo. Just so you know, this sentence is now out
- 01:35
of colonoscopy surgery and is doing just fine.
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