Punctuation rules Dominic Jack violet

________ means using capital, or upper-case, letters.

Use ________ to show possession or in contractions. 

Use _____to separate items in a list, between independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.

Use ______ for direct quotes, titles of short works (like articles or poems), and technical terms.

Use _______ to enclose extra information or comments.

Use ______ to join closely related independent clauses or between items in a list that already contain commas.

Use _____ after an independent clause to introduce a list, explanation, or example.

Use ______ to set off parenthetical information and for compound numbers.

 All declarative sentences end with a__________.

 Use an _______ to indicate omitted words or a pause.