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ELA Drills, Beginner: Punctuation and Capitalization 1 303 Views
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ELA Drills, Beginner: Punctuation and Capitalization 1. Which punctuation mark should be added to the sentence?
Transcript
- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
- 00:05
jour brought to you by seemingly good ideas like deciding
- 00:09
it's probably safe to go out on the frozen pond
- 00:11
Reprieve your frisbee Which punctuation mark should we add to
- 00:15
this piece of dialogue to separate who's talking from what
Full Transcript
- 00:19
he or she is saying all right near the potential
- 00:21
answers question mark exclamation coming period Well first of all
- 00:25
carlos should really speak up He might save everyone a
- 00:28
ton of heartache if he wasn't going around whispering all
- 00:31
the time Man Carlos we know you've got it in
- 00:33
you All right So what type of punctuation do we
- 00:36
want to plug in right here Well probably not a
- 00:40
question Mark carlos is stating that he doesn't think it's
- 00:43
a good idea He's not asking anything And question marks
- 00:46
are really only used when you're asking a question that
- 00:50
surprisingly enough kind of the same deal with b an
- 00:52
exclamation mark exclamation marks or used when someone's shouting or
- 00:57
excited about something Not when there mumbling something under their
- 01:01
breath Since we're dealing with the quiet talking carlos here
- 01:04
we can get rid of option b What about dean
- 01:06
A period well this might work if the line of
- 01:09
dialogue wasn't followed by the words carlos said quietly a
- 01:14
period always ends a sentence so because we still haven't
- 01:17
found out who it is that's expressing concern about this
- 01:21
if the idea we can't cop a period in there
- 01:23
just yet well the best answer Guess what is c
- 01:26
a comma Yeah comma can be used to separate items
- 01:29
in a list but this little guy has a lot
- 01:31
of duties Kamas can also separate clauses separate items in
- 01:36
a list separate parts of an address and that's just
- 01:40
to name a few Here we use a common to
- 01:42
separate the dialogue from the explanation of who is speaking
- 01:45
to make it clear what's happening without ending our sentence
- 01:48
prematurely let's Hope carlos never gets a partner musical We
- 01:52
really don't want to have to strain to hear him 00:01:54.103 --> [endTime] whisper singing show tunes from the back row there
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