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- MicroHelp Library
- Mastery Learning
- PUNCTUATION
- (c) 1989 by
- Allen Hackworth
- Press ENTER to continue
- This tutorial assumes
- you have studied these
- sections:
- Subject/Verb
- Clauses
- Parts of Speech
- If needed, return to the
- main menu and do so.
- s skill now.
- Start with the tutorial.
- PUNCTUATION
- Press the letter of your choice.
- T Tutorial
- D Drill for
- M Main Menu
- m = comma
- c = colon(s)
-
- h = hyphen
- p = period
-
- r = return
- Press the
- ___ ___
- letter
- Commas are
- used to add
- clarity to
- a sentence.
- Press ENTER.
- Use commas to add clarity to a sentence by showing
- where you want pauses to occur in the text. However,
- do not overuse commas.
- Press ENTER
- Separate adjectives that precede the noun but do not
- include a comma after the adjective that immediately
- precedes the noun.
- Press ENTER
- For example,
- The large, lean, angry bear swam in the cold, clear river.
- } Press Enter
- Use a comma before a coordinate conjunction when the con-
- junction (and, or, but, for, nor) joins two IC's.
- (IC means independent clause.)
- Press ENTER
- For example,
- I wanted to meet at the park, but my car would not start.
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- Separate an
- appositive
- with commas.
- Press ENTER
- An example
- follows. The
- appositive is
- underlined.
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- Stan Maxwell, the president, gave
- ~ Press ENTER
- Finally, sep-
- DC = dependent clause
- arate a DC from
- IC = independent clause
- an IC if the
- DC comes first.
- For example: DC, IC.
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- Although we were tired, we drove on to
- M The dependent clause (DC) is underlined.
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- If the DC comes
- AFTER the IC, don't
- use a comma.
- See the example
- below.
- We drove on to
- 7 Press ENTER
- This completes
- the comma
- tutorial.
- Press ENTER
- This section
- teaches the
- colon and semi-
- colon.
- Press ENTER
-