What does a semicolon hold together? The piece of chocolate cake which probably has a million calories in it was delicious. Charles Dickens who was great writer in the late 19 th Century is the author of Little Dorrit. The guy that my old roommate married is super boring.

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Use a Hyphen to: *make certain compound words great-grandfathersix-year-oldson-in-law *create new words using prefixes and suffixes ex-boyfriend self-assured mid-Septemberall-inclusive anti-Americanall-American pre-Civil Warmid-1980s president-elect

Use a Hyphen to: *join two or more words serving as a single adjective before a noun a one-way streetan easy-going dude chocolate-covered peanutsall-powerful ruler well-known authorLea’s fur-lined coat book-smart studentstreet-smart lady *join letters and nouns x-axisT-shirtG-rated

Use a Hyphen to: *between written-out fractions four-tenthsseven thirty-seconds (7/32) *in series and with compound numbers (21-99) The socks come in two-, four-, or six-pair packages. Our teacher is sixty-three years old. *to show life span (in parenthesis) Tupac Shakur ( ) was an American rapper and actor.

The dash is sort of like a comma. The difference is in emphasis: use a dash when a comma might not be strong enough

Use a Dash to: *mark a sudden break in thought, add extra information But now that Gale has gone to work in the coalmines—and I have nothing to do all day—I’ve taken over the job.

Use a Dash: *to emphasize a word, a phrase, or a clause Katniss was much more than a victor—she was a rebel. There was only one way out of this—the berries

Use a Dash: *to show when speech is interrupted

The high commas

Use an apostrophe: *with contractions You’re = you are Your = possession They’re = they are Their = possession There = where? It’s = it is Its = possession

Use an apostrophe: *use to form the plurals of letters, numbers, signs ‘+ s A’s and B’s 1’s ad 4’s No if’s, and’s, or but’s +’s and -’s Let’s go over the dos and don’ts of grammar… Also… I’m just hangin’ out here. I graduated high school in ’09.

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