Grammar

Period

• A period will end a sentence

• Seperates 2 independent clauses

• My dog likes apples. Her dog likes oranges.

Semicolons

• Will end a sentence

• Seperates 2 independent clauses

• The 2 sentences must be closely related

• My dog likes apples; Her dog likes oranges.

Commas

• Seperating a list

  • I like oranges, apples, and bananas.
    
    

• FANBOYS

  • For

  • And

  • Nor

  • But

  • Or

  • Yet

    • He is scared of heights, yet he still jumped into the water.

  • So
    
    

• Non-essential info rule

  • My car, which is blue, is outside.
    
    

• Introductory clause

• I had a car, before it got towed.

  • Independent, Dependent
    
    

• Interrupters

  • The train, however, was delayed by an hour.
    
    

• Direct speaking

  • Sarah, pass the salt.
    
    

Colons and Dashes (interchangable)

• Dash

  • Puts off information

  • I have a dog—he is blue—and he ran away.
    
    

• Colon

  • Introduces a list

  • Introduces an example

  • Before the colon you must have an independent clause

  • My name is Keshav: said the boy.

he was a boy, however;