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SAT Punctuation Rules

1. The document discusses punctuation rules for the SAT, including how to use periods, exclamation points, question marks, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, and quotation marks correctly. 2. It provides examples of using commas to separate elements in a list, set off non-essential information, and separate independent clauses. 3. Semicolons can connect independent clauses and separate items in a series with internal commas. Colons can introduce lists, explanations, quotes, and examples.

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SAT Punctuation Rules

1. The document discusses punctuation rules for the SAT, including how to use periods, exclamation points, question marks, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, and quotation marks correctly. 2. It provides examples of using commas to separate elements in a list, set off non-essential information, and separate independent clauses. 3. Semicolons can connect independent clauses and separate items in a series with internal commas. Colons can introduce lists, explanations, quotes, and examples.

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SAT Punctuation Rules

Grammar questions account for approximately 50% of the questions on


ACT English and 25% of SAT Reading and Writing (give or take a few
percentage points)
Slide 1: Introduction
• Objective: Understand key punctuation rules for the SAT.
• Approach: Read sentences in context and identify relationships
between clauses.
Independent and Dependent Clauses
• Independent Clause: Can stand alone as a sentence.
• Dependent Clause: Cannot stand alone.
Ways to end a sentence
• Period(.)
My friend passed his IELTS test.

• Exclamation mark （！） ---excitement,strong feelings,emphasis


I got accepted to Harvard law!

• Question mark(? ）
• How do i get to the airport?
COMMA
• Separating sentence elements
1. It can separate elements of list
• All high school students need to take accounting,business studies,
commerce,
geography,chemistry,physics,economics,biology,intergrated
science,physical education,history, maths, english and a practical
subject.
DATES
• December 13, 2023
Separate independent clauses
• The weather was beautiful, so we decided to go for a hike.
Set off non-essential information
• My sister, a talented musician, plays the violin.
• The issue of global warming,however,continues to worsen.
Semicolons;
• Connect closely related independent clauses
1. I enjoy playing the piano; my sister prefers the guitar.
Separate items in a series with internal
commas
• The team included players from New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois;
and Los Angeles, California.
Hold two main clauses together
• William Blake is a time-travelling alien, he has saved humanity
countless times.
• William Blake is a time-travelling alien; he has saved humanity
countless times.
1. Semicolons connect independent clauses.
• I used to love skiing; but now I prefer to stay at home and talk to my
cats.
• I used to love skiing, but now I prefer to stay at home and talk to my
cats.
• I used to love skiing; now I prefer to stay at home and talk to my cats.
Colons:
• Introduce a list or explanation
• There are three things I love: reading, writing, and hiking.
Introduce a quote or example
• "She had one goal: to finish the marathon."
• Capitalization and Punctuation
• After placing the colon, follow a few simple rules to punctuate the
quote.
• * Rule 1: the colon should be followed immediately by quotation
marks.
• * Rule 2: the first letter in the quotation should be capitalized.
• * Rule 3: any punctuation at the end of the quotation should be inside
the quotation marks.
Which of the following sentences correctly
uses a colon to introduce the quotation?

• A. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot asks: "Do I dare
disturb the universe?"
• B. Eliot ends "The Hollow Men" with these haunting lines: "This is the
way the world ends; not with a bang, but with a whimper."
• C. The narrator of "Journey of the Magi" says: "I had seen birth and
death but had thought they were different."
Which of the following sentences is
incorrectly punctuated?
• A. "Love is like a virus," wrote Maya Angelou. "It can happen to
anyone at any time."
• B. As Maya Angelou said, "Nothing will work unless you do."
• C. Maya Angelou expressed her struggle like this, "There is no greater
agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
C.Maya Angelou expressed her struggle like this: "There is no greater
agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Dashes and Hyphens
• Dashes (Em Dashes): Set off parenthetical statements
1) The concert—scheduled for next week—had to be postponed.
2) While i was on my way to her place-i bumped into my crush- and we
wound up going on a date.
Hyphens: Connect words in compound
constructions.
• The well-known author received an award.
• He promised to buy her a Valentines present but he showed up
empty-handed.
• The Duchess of Sussex, Meagan Markle, does not have a good
relationship with her mother-in-law.
Apostrophes’
• Contractions and possession
• It's a beautiful day."
• The cat's toy is on the shelf.
Quotation Marks
• Direct speech or enclosing titles
• She said, "I'll be there by 3 o'clock."
• I read the article "The Power of Habit."
• Punctuation (including type and placement)
• Verb tense and form
• Pronouns
• Prepositions
• Idiomatic phrases and words

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