2023 English 10 Formal Writing & Proofreading Review

the punctuation marks you put around material quoted directly from a source

• parentheses

• commas

• quotation marks

• exclamation marks

the punctuation mark used to link two closely related complete sentences

• colon

• semicolon

• period

• comma

the punctuation mark used to introduce items in a list or a long quoted passage

• colon

• semicolon

• comma

• period

the punctuation mark used to form possessives and contractions

• semicolon

• question mark

• comma

• apostrophe

the punctuation marks you use to cite a source at the end of a sentence

• quotation marks

• commas

• parentheses

• colon

a word formed by removing letters (for example: he’s, can’t, shouldn’t, I’m, you’ll, etc.)

• conjunction

• contraction

• conundrum

• consolation

the argument presented in an essay; the writer’s opinion disguised as a fact

• transition

• thesis

• contraction

• conjunction

the part of speech that connects words, phrases, clauses, or sentences

• contraction

• consternation

• conjunction

• conjugation

the perspective or angle from which a narrator tells a story or a writer presents a text

• claim

• call to action

• point of view

• TAG phrase

the writer speaks about others from the outside; pronouns such as he, she, it, they, his, hers, its, theirs, etc.

• first person POV

• second person POV

• third person POV