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Read Write Think: A Mini Lesson on Semicolons
Practical instructional activity on students' use of the semicolon, modeled on Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Comma vs. Semicolon: Compound Sentences
A handout with forty sentences for practicing comma and semicolon usage in compound sentences; answer key provided.
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Tidewater Community College Writing Center: Practical Punctuation Guide
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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Semicolon: Review of Margaret Peterson Haddix Books
This detailed blog posting recommends 4 of Margaret Peterson Haddix's books for young teen girls. Includes comments on some of her other books as well.
Vancouver Island University
Malaspina: Punctuating Between Main Clauses
Four printable exercises in which punctuation errors need to be corrected. 2.1 requires correction of compound sentences by putting in commas or semicolons where needed and getting rid of comma splices. 2.2 requires comma splice...
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