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Other

Library Online: Colon and Semicolon Punctuation in Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples in list form demonstrating the proper use of both the colon and semicolon.
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ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Sentence Builder Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of the major elements of punctuation in the English language, including the period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, apostrophe, quotation marks, colon, semicolon, dash, and hyphen. Provides a brief description and the...
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page provides links to punctuation reference materials for apostrophes, colons, dashes, commas, parentheses, italics, quotation marks, and semicolons.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Brief Overview of Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides a brief overview of semicolons, colons, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, italics, and underlining.
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Grammar Tips

Colons, and Semicolons, and Bears!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Refer to this short article if you need help with using semicolons or colons. There are several examples of both correct and incorrect usage, as well as a clear explanation of the difference.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Guide to Grammar & Style provides this tutorial on two common uses for the semicolon: 1)to separate items in a list after a colon, and 2)to separate two independent clauses in one sentence.
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Uses of the Semicolon and Colon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This writing lab site shows students how to correctly use semicolons and colons in punctuation.
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Other

Tidewater Community College Writing Center: Practical Punctuation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains practical and useful information about the following: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses and brackets, ellipsis points, quotation marks, and apostrophes. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Quotation Marks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The proper use of quotation marks is explained and shown with examples in this excerpt from H.W. Fowler's The King?s English, 2nd ed. (1908), a writing primer used in the early 20th century.
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ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the each type of punctuation used when building a sentence.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Punctuation

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Punctuation is the point of this lesson. You'll learn to put the right dots and squiggles in the appropriate places in your writing. You'll review the conventions of punctuation used in academic English. Then you will apply what you...
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English Club

English Club: What Is Punctuation?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial reviews the purposes for punctuation. Several examples of punctuation in the context of sentences.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the roles of all of the punctuation marks; it provides a video, small practices in various sections, and a punctuation self-check.