Punctuation

Let's talk about punctuation.

There's three major purposes to punctuation.

See there to end a sentence or simply thought to

combine complete sentences and were to emphasize lists and ideas.

I narrowed it down to three functions for the sake

of simplification.

So if we look at the first one, the punctuation

marks that end sentences.

We're gonna be looking at periods, question marks and exclamation

points. The period is the simplest punctuation mark.

It is there could to complete a but or a

sentence. Examples are I was sleeping a hatch to stay

awake. Fish travel in schools.

Whales travel in pods, snow, white, light lead.

She has a bad habit of being tardy.

All of these air simple sentences or independent clauses, as

we talked about last week.

Question marks and exclamation points thes also and sentences the

question mark off horses there.

When you're asking the brush in such as you brought

me ice cream.

The exclamation there is to emphasize excitement or emotion in

a sentence.

I love ice cream.

Now let's move on to how we combine sentences, and

there's two things that we can use for this.

We can use commas, and we can use semi colons.

Semi colons are tricky to master, but they're actually pretty

simple. Want to get the hang of in Hamas air

more complicated because they have way more rules and great

areas. But let's get started on these four major functions.

Teoh. It allows you to create a list or more

within a sentence.

It allows you to introduce elements to a sentence or

use introductory elements.

Innocent is it allows you to add information or details,

and when you're using, coordinate conjunctions such as four and

nor but or get so um, the comments will allow

you to combine sentences.

So let's take a look at the very first function

lists. Here's two examples.

Sam's favorite sports are basketball, soccer and volleyball.

This sentence list three sports the commas air.

They're two separate each sport from one another.

The next one Sam Celebrity crushes are Chadwick, Boseman, Chris

Events, Free Larson and the video Go.

These are four names that are listed as well as

Sam celebrity crushes.

The comments were there to help you separate and identify

each of these celebrities, introductory elements or things that come

before sentence so they introduce a sentence.

This example we have.

In the 19 fifties, a Texas town named Lolita almost

changed its name to avoid being associated with the controversial

novel. Now you can pretty much say the same sentience

without the very beginning, but the beginning is there to

give you context.

This is talking about the 19 fifties, the second sentence.

Once upon a time, you confined grizzly bears in California.

Once again, you could pretty much start the sentence with

You could find Chris leaders in California, but without the

once upon a time you're not getting a sense of

when you were able to find receivers in California.

This is important because you most certainly can't find these

bears here today.

But if you start the sentence with once upon a

time, it gives you the idea that this is something

that happened a long time ago is something that was

true a long time ago.

That's why these introductory elements can be important.

Added descriptions.

My brother, who is a pain in my butt, snitched

on me now.

Additional description is the very center of this sentence who

is a pain in my butt.

That's because you can pretty much read dissensions with my

brother snitched on me, and this makes perfect sense.

The commas allow you to add something in the middle

to give you a little bit more understanding, which provide

a little bit of a deeper explanation.

So if I say my brother snitched on me versus

my brother, who is a pain in my butt snitched

on me.

If you look at the second sample, the one with

the added information, we might get the sense that maybe

my brother has finished on me more than once.

Now, the second example I have here, parts of the

movie Oklahoma, which was a huge hit in 1955 were

actually filmed in Arizona again.

Read it without the middle section hardsub movie child of

the movie Oklahoma were actually filmed in Arizona.

The center just gives you a little bit more information

about the year and how popular it waas, so it's

providing more context Now.

The very last being were functioning with Mama has is

combining sentences.

Uh, you can't just use a comma and combine to

complete sentences.

You need to have coordinating conjunctions.

That means words like four and nor but or yet

and so so Let's take a look at this.

I use these examples of simple sentences.

Earlier, I was sleepy.

I had to stay away.

You can combine those two sentences by simply saying obviously

B comma, but I had to stay your weight.

The same thing goes for fish travel in schools, comma

and whales travel in pods.

The common is there and it's allowing you to combine

sentences. But you need to make sure that you have

a coordinated conjunction or one of the band boys.

Um, if you need more examples of this, please let

me know and I will gladly give you more examples.

Ad help You master this but one of the ways

in which I try to help master this the same.

Identify all of the sentences that can stand alone and

you'll be able to see that the thing that they

have in common in the center are the Kama and

the conjunction.

Right? Next, we have semi colons.

I only provided you with one example of this the

semi colon, who binds to complete sentences that it's pressed

the same idea.

So again I'm repeating a sentience I used earlier.

Snow White arrived.

Wait, she has a bad habit of the target.

In this case, the semi colon is ending the first

sentence and pretty much adding the she has a bad

habit of being tardy as an extension of that idea.

Snow White is always late, so let's take a look.

Finally, at Coghlan's, Poland's have a few functions.

Your used there used Teoh separate the hour from the

minutes when you're looking at a loss.

They're also there to separate titles from subtitles.

There there to introduce list and to emphasize, award or

idea. So let's take a look at titles.

Star Wars and You Hope X Men First Class.

These are examples of titles and subtitles.

The main title in the first one, of course, is

Star Wars.

A New Hope is the subtitle, and in the second

one, Excellent is the main title.

First Class is the subtitle.

Poland's are also used to introduce lists.

So here, UH, two sentences with lists and them.

There are three finery colors holding red, yellow and blue.

The second one leads.

We will need a few materials to complete this project,

holding paper and scissors and glue.

The first part is a complete sentence the colon ends

the first complete sentence and then introduces a list.

Last but not least, the colon is there to emphasize

an idea.

So we are all afraid of the same thing.

Creepy clowns and the haunted mazes again, the first section

of the sentience is a complete each sentence.

It's a simple sentence.

We're all afraid of the same thing.

You can end it there, but the colon is introducing

or emphasizing the idea that creepy clowns and the haunted

nieces are things that we're all afraid.

Oh, second sentence reads.

I use one primary color and all of my projects

red. This sentence emphasizes the value of the color red

by just ending out with that word.

I use one primary color in all of my projects.

That's a complete sentence.

The colon is there simply to add the detail.

Red and red can stand alone because its stance of

island that's that word is emphasized.

So here you have three functions of punctuation and how

they help you and sentences.

They help you combine them, and they help you emphasize

ideas. If you have any other questions, please let me

know I will gladly walk you through this again.

And we also have this presentation to go back to

If you need to take more notes or if he

needs to refresh your memory.

Thank you.

Punctuation

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