Across
- 3. this is what type of quotation- a report of the exact words of an author or speaker
- 4. around titles of short stories, poems, songs, chapters, and magazine or newspaper articles; around direct quotations
- 6. first word of a sentence; first word of a direct quotation; proper nouns; holidays and special days; days of the week, months; words referring to God and the Bible; names, initials, titles of respect, the word I, and family titles used as names; cities, states, countries, rivers, oceans; first, last, and all important words in titles
Down
- 1. titles of books, newspapers, magazines, names of ships, etc.
- 2. after yes or no at the beginning of a sentence; around the name of the person you are speaking to in a sentence; to separate the words that tell who is speaking from the direct quotation; to correct a run-on sentence by adding a comma and a joining word; to separate a city and a state, separate the state from the rest of the sentence with a comma; to separate the parts of a date, place a comma after the year unless the date comes at the end of the sentence; to separate words or groups of words in a series; to separated adjectives describing the same noun, some combinations of adjectives do not need commas
- 3. mark the sentence, diagram subjects on left of vertical line, diagram verb(s) on right side of vertical line
- 5. at the end of a declarative sentence; at the end of most imperative sentences; after initials and abbreviated titles of respect; after abbreviated books of the Bible; after abbreviations