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Periods, question marks, and exclamation points are

Terminal markers

Used to connect sentences

The punctuation mark used to connect closely related independent clauses is

A colon

A semicolon

A comma

A period

Check all the sentences that are true:

Serial semicolons are always followed irrespective of serial comma style

Serial semicolons are followed in US English

Serial semicolons are used when semicolons are used to separate items in a list

Serial semicolons should never be followed

With simple lists, we use ________________; with lists within lists, we use _____________.

Semicolons; colons

Semicolons; commas

Commas; semicolons

Commas; commas

"Therefore", "Consequently", "However", and so on are called

Adverbial conjunctions

Coordinating conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Conjunctival adverbs

Between a dependent clause and an independent clause, we use

Colons

Semicolons

Commas

No punctuation

In general, semicolons are used to connect

Two independent clauses

A dependent clause and an independent clause

To introduce a list

Two closely related independent clauses

Between a subject and a verb, we can use

A colon

A semicolon

A comma

No punctuation

The clause following a semicolon is

Capitalized only when the clause begins with a proper noun

Capitalized always

Never capitalized

Check all that is/are true.

Semicolons always go inside the quotation marks

Semicolons always fall outside of the quotation marks

Placing of semicolons with quotation marks is dependent on the completeness of the quoted text

None of the above

Colons and semicolons - 01

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