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Review Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How do you punctuate a book title? | Underline or italics |
| How do you punctuate a poem title? | In quotation marks EX: "Lives Lived" |
| How do you punctuate a short story title? | in quotation marks |
| Is a theme one word or a phrase? | a phrase - Theme is the message or what you're supposed to learn from a story, movie, etc. (EX: always tell the truth) |
| What is the spelling rule to remember how how to spell words with ie or ei? | I before E except after C. Exceptions are words with the long A sound like neighbor and weigh |
| What kind of events would advance a plot? | Events that make the problem worse advance the plot |
| What mneumonic device can you use to remember conjunctions? | FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) |
| What punctuation do you use when you introduce a list? | colon (Buy these things at the store: soap, meat, bread. |
| What sentence will help me remember prepositions? | The dog ran ______________ the house. |
| When do you capitalize mom, dad, grandpa, grandma. | When it is used as a name and doesn't have my, our, your, his in front of it. (EX: I saw Mom today. I saw my mom today) |
| When you have a sentence with quotation marks, does the period or comma at the end generally go inside or outside the quotation marks? | Most of the time, it goes inside (before) the quotation marks. EX: John said, "Please remember this rule." |