OK, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Pocahontas for Women’s History Month 2020. I always like to give credit where credit is due, so let me once again remind you that you can find a yearlong supply of these worksheets at Education world, where the generous proprietors of that site give them away at no charge.
If you find typos, fix the dang things, That’s the purpose of these exercises.
[If you’d prefer to use this as a learning support in Microsoft Word typescript, click on that link and it will download to wherever on your computer downloads land.]
“7. Use a colon after an independent clause to introduce a list of particulars, an appositive, an amplification, or an illustrative principle.
A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause. The colon has more effect than the comma, less power to separate than the semicolon, and more formality than the dash. It usually follows an independent clause and should not separate a verb from its complement or a preposition from its object. In the four sentences that follow, the first sentence in each pair is wrong; it should be rewritten as in the second sentence.
Your dedicated whittler requires: a knife, a piece of wood, and a back porch.
Your dedicated whittler requires three props: a knife, a piece of wood, and a back porch.
Understanding is that penetrating quality of knowledge that grows from: theory practice, conviction, assertion, error, and humiliation.
Understanding is that penetrating quality of knowledge that grows from theory, practice, conviction, assertion, error, and humiliation.
Join two independent clauses with a colon if the second interprets or amplifies the first.
But even so, there was directness and dispatch about animal burial: there was no stopover in the undertakers foul parlor, no wreath or spray.
A colon may introduce a quotation that supports or contributes to the preceding clause.
The squalor of the streets reminded her of a line from Oscar Wilde: ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’
The colon also has certain functions to form: to follow the salutation of a formal letter, to separate hour from minute in a notation of time, and to separate the title of a work from its subtitle or a Bible chapter from a verse.
Dear Mr. Montague:
departs at 10:48 P.M
Practical Calligraphy: A Guide to Italic Script
Nehemiah 11:7“
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged diction/grammar/style/usage, learning supports, punctuation
Moving right along on this late winter morning, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Maya Angelou. I cannot in good conscience–even though if you find these worksheets on Mark’s Text Terminal, you have already read this ad nauseum–post this material without both thanking and directing you towards the Education World website, where you can find a yearlong supply of Everyday Edit worksheets.
Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Martha Washington for Women’s History Month 2020. And if you want more of these, to give credit where it is always and abundantly due, the good people at Education World will supply you with a year’s worth of these documents.
And if you find typos on this document, they are there because they need to be fixed….
Cleaning out the Women’s History Month warehouse, I came upon this Everyday Edit worksheet on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. As always, and in the interest of giving credit where it is richly due, let me remind you that the good people at Education World give away a year’s supply of these documents, many of them on high interest topics.
Here, in continuing observation of Women’s History Month 2020, is an Everyday Edit worksheet on first lady Sarah Childress Polk. She was wed, of course, to President James K. Polk. As I always say when posting these materials, in order to give credit where credit is due, the good people at Education World give away a year’s supply of these worksheets if you find them useful in your practice.
Moving right along this morning, here is an worksheet on Jeanette Rankin. I’ve been fascinated with Representative Rankin since I encountered her in high school. Here’s a chance to introduce her to your students while attending to matters of grammar, style, usage, and punctuation.
If Everyday Edits work well in your classroom, don’t forget that you can find a yearlong supply of them gratis from the good people at Education World.
If you find typos in this document, well, that’s the object of the exercise. Guide your students through their repair!
I need this morning to move on to other work on this blog, but before I do, I’ll publish one more post in its observance of Women’s History Month 2020, to with, this Everyday Edit worksheet on Eleanor Roosevelt. If you and your students find Everyday Edit work satisfying, let me remind you that you can find a yearlong supply of them under that hyperlink courtesy of the good people at Education World.
If you find typos in this document, thank the writer of them for showing students how to copyedit text; then fix them!
Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Ida B. Wells, the estimable journalist and civil rights activist. If you like this, and would like to use Everyday Edits in your teaching practice, head on over to Education World, where the good people who operate that site give away a twelve-month supply of them.
If you find typos and errors in this document, don’t notify me, because I can’t do anything with this PDF. Instead, fix them! That’s the purpose of the document.
[If you’d like a copy of this material to use as a teaching and learning support, click that hyperlink; like almost everything at Mark’s Text Terminal, it’s a Word document, so you may manipulate it freely.]
“Do not join independent clauses with a comma.
If two or more clauses grammatically complete and not joined by a conjunction are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of punctuation is a semicolon.
Mary Shelley’s works are entertaining; they are full of engaging ideas.
It is nearly half past five; we cannot reach town before dark.
It is, of course, equally correct to write each of these as two sentence, replacing the semicolons with periods.
Mary Shelley’s works are entertaining. They are full of engaging ideas.
It is nearly half past five. We cannot reach town before dark.
If a conjunction is inserted, the proper mark is a comma. (Rule 4).
Mary Shelley’s works are entertaining, for they are full of engaging ideas.
It is nearly half past five, and we cannot reach town before dark.
A comparison of the three forms given above will show clearly the advantage of the first. It is, at least in the examples given, better than the second form because it suggests the close relationship between the two statements in a way that the second does not attempt, and better than the third because it is briefer and therefore more forcible. Indeed, this simple method of indicating relationships between statements is one of the most useful devices of composition. The relationship, as above, is commonly one of cause and consequence.
Note that if the second clause is preceded by an adverb, such as accordingly, besides, then, therefore or thus, and not by a conjunction, the semicolon is still required.
I never had been in the place before; besides, it was dark as a tomb.
An exception to the semicolon is worth noting here. A comma is preferable when the clauses are very short and alike in form, or when the tone of the sentence is easy and conversational.
Man proposes, God disposes.
The gates swung apart, the bridge fell, the portcullis was drawn up.
I hardly knew him, he was so changed.
Here today, gone tomorrow.”
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
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