Quotation Marks for Speech and Titles (Grade 8)
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Quotation Marks for Speech and Titles (Grade 8)
Quotation marks for Grade 8: choose the dialogue punctuated correctly, with the question mark, exclamation mark, or comma inside the quotation marks, choose the title that takes quotation marks and the sentence that punctuates a story title correctly, say when a new paragraph starts, then punctuate two lines of speech, add quotation marks to two titles, and write two lines of dialogue. With an answer key.
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Write a time with a colon between the hour and the minutes, introduce a list with a colon after a complete sentence, join two independent clauses with a semicolon, set off extra words with dashes or parentheses, and show words left out of a quotation with an ellipsis.
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How to use this sheet
- Read each sentence aloud and listen for the pauses and the tone.
- Have the child give a reason for each punctuation mark: the end of a question, a list, a pause after an opening word.
- Have the child check their own writing for one mark at a time, rather than every mark at once.
- For times, have the child say the hour, then the minutes, with the colon between: 3:15.
Common mistakes
- Putting a comma wherever they would pause, even between a subject and its verb.
- Joining two complete sentences with a comma. Use a period, a semicolon, or a comma and a conjunction.
- Using an exclamation mark for every sentence that is not a question.
- Putting a colon straight after a verb, as in "We need: eggs and milk." The words before a colon should be a complete sentence.
