Punctuation and Part of Speech
Across
- 1. Used to define nouns
- 3. Use this at the end of a statement
- 4. End in -self or -selves
- 6. Connects words or phrases; joins parts of a sentence
- 7. Uses reflexive pronouns to emphasize the subject of the sentence
- 10. Use this before a list of words following an independent clause; to signal important ideas; to write salutations in a business letter; in numerals giving time
- 12. Use this to make letters appear bigger
- 18. Used to connect parts of a sentence in pairs
- 19. Shows ownership; replaces a letter in contractions
- 20. Used to connect parts of a sentence with one word
Down
- 2. Join independent clauses that don’t use a conjunction; used to avoid confusion when items in a series already have commas
- 5. Use this to show emotion and the end of a sentence
- 8. Used in dialogue or direct speech in a narrative
- 9. A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
- 11. Used to show the object
- 13. Indicates the location of things
- 14. Use this at the end of a question
- 15. Modifies or gives information about nouns and pronouns
- 16. A person, place, or thing
- 17. Use in numbers, compound words, and fractions as adjectives