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Read the Basher: Punctuation Dos and Don’ts below. Put a check mark ✔ in front of all of the Dos and an “X” in front of all of the Don’ts.

_____________ 1. Put commas in year dates.

___________ 2. Use commas to set off anything nonessential that interrupts a Sentence’s main point.

___________ 3. Use a comma if a subordinate clause comes before the main clause.

___________ 4. Use a question mark at the end of an indirect question.

___________ 5. Use commas in large numbers to set off thousands, millions, billions, trillions, and so on.

___________ 6. Do use hyphens in compound adjectives, compound words, and some prefixes.

___________ 7. Use an ellipsis when you run out of ideas on a subject.

__________ 8. Use semicolons for complicated lists.

__________ 9. Double quotation marks show where a quotation begins and where it ends.

___________ 10. Always put a space before a colon.

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