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Title: Within-Sentence Punctuation

Grade: 8-a Lesson: S4-L3

Explanation: Hello Students, time to practice and review the answers.

Description:

Step	Type	Explanation	Answer
1	Problem	Because he had recently moved to a new school-Lucas was sometimes lonely because he has no new friends in school.
2	Clue	Punctuations help end, pause, and emphasize certain sentence parts.
3	Hint	Commas separate phrases and clauses, a period ends a sentence, and a semicolon is used to join two logically connected independent clauses together, the dash is used to provide additional information that complements the main purpose of the sentence.
4	Step:	Correct sentence	Option: C) Complete sentence - Because he had recently moved to a new school; Lucas was sometimes lonely because he has no new friends in school.

Step

Type

Explanation

Answer

Problem

Because he had recently moved to a new school-Lucas was sometimes lonely because he has no new friends in school.

Clue

Punctuations help end, pause, and emphasize certain sentence parts.

Hint

Commas separate phrases and clauses, a period ends a sentence, and a semicolon is used to join two logically connected independent clauses together, the dash is used to provide additional information that complements the main purpose of the sentence.

Step:

Correct sentence

Option: C) Complete sentence - Because he had recently moved to a new school; Lucas was sometimes lonely because he has no new friends in school.