Semicolon Worksheet
1. When are semicolons used?
2. What are 4 examples of conjunctive adverbs, and why are they helpful to know when working with semicolons?
Sentence Writing
Write a sentence about tornados using a semicolon.
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Write a sentence showing how semicolons can be used in listing.
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Write a sentence containing a semicolon and conjunctive adverb.
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Add the correct punctuation:
She was getting old the wrinkles increasing daily
I had two breakfasts; however I still want more food
She calls it love I call it friendship
We
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Write a sentence with a semicolon and conjunctive adverb about school
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9. Write a sentence with two independent clauses that would be best suited for a comma instead.
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D. Correct the following sentences if needed.
2 points each
10. I am here you are over there.
11. I feel like I have gotten no sleep lately; nonetheless, all this homework has to be finished.
12. Although they tried; they fail.
13. The people came from Nashville, Tennessee, Byron Center, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California.
14. When I will be finished, which will be soon, I’ll try to help you; and that is something I can promise you.
15. I have one goal; to find her.
16. Bring two different snacks; however remember that someone has tree nut allergies.
17. These are my favorite colors; red, yellow; and purple.
18. To want is easy, to give is difficult.
19. I needed to go, not because I wasn’t having fun, I was; but I knew I shouldn’t be there.
20. I wanted only this; one stress free day.
Semicolon Quiz Answers Guide
A.Listing
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5. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? I had to stay after school for an hour in order for Mrs. Logue to elucidate on genetics. Interpreting/Making a Prediction “If her right eye was blackened and she was beaten mostly on the right side of her face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it.” (Lee 238) “
3. Select a passage that connects to your life in some way. Discuss what the passage means to you and how it connects to your life in a significant way.
a.) “When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts” (150)
I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen.
B. "This was the road over which Antonia and I came on that night when we got off the train at Black Hawk...For Antonia and for me, this had been the road of Destiny; had taken us to those early accidents of fortune which predetermined for us all that we can ever be. Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, and incommunicable past."
2) 'The old man's head was very old though and with his eyes closed there was no face' {Pg 11}
This passage is composed of two dependent clauses connected with a semicolon. The first independent clause contains 26 words and the second clause contains 17 words. Both clauses are complex. The first clause contains an appositive and the second is a combination of an independent clause followed by a
C. The quote is above is a support that there is still a percentage of child out of school here in the US, which comes against the 2001 law, "no child is left behind."
4. At that moment I couldn’t feel any more cynical about the way my friend was acting out.
3. My teacher gave a test a week; a predilection that most of the class disliked.
11. The main conflict in my novel is Jeff trying to decide if he wants to be in the Union or the Confederacy.
B. The word “independent” displays symbolic diction since Jefferson is stating that this is one of the many reasons why America wants its independence.
14 I was ahead of most other Jews of my age in my practice of the Jewish religion, and was much more devoted to the traditions of our ancestors.
B. i ask that you should think about these precautions and take them into thought
Semi-colons are grammatical equal signs. What goes on one side of a semi-colon must be grammatically equal to what goes on the other side. Typically they join two independent clauses. To the right see incorrect usage: a semi-colon is trying to join an independent clause and a phrase.