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Title: Within-Sentence Punctuation

Grade: 8-a Lesson: S4-L3

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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	Choice.A	Because he had recently moved to a new school Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school. The sentence is incorrect due to a lack of proper punctuation to separate the two related but distinct ideas.	No change
5	Choice.B	Because he had recently moved to a new School,Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school. The sentence is incorrect due to the unnecessary capitalization of "School."	School,Lucas
6	Choice.C	Because he had recently moved to a new school, Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school. The sentence is correct due to the proper use of a comma to connect the dependent and independent clauses.	school, Lucas
7	Choice.D	Because he had recently moved to a new School-Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school. The sentence is incorrect due to the use of a hyphen instead of a proper punctuation mark to connect the two clauses.	School-Lucas
8	Step:	Correct sentence	Because he had recently moved to a new school, Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school.
9	Answer	Option	C
10	Sumup	Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

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.

Choice.A

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

The sentence is incorrect due to a lack of proper punctuation to separate the two related but distinct ideas.

No change

Choice.B

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

The sentence is incorrect due to the unnecessary capitalization of "School."

School,Lucas

Choice.C

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

The sentence is correct due to the proper use of a comma to connect the dependent and independent clauses.

school, Lucas

Choice.D

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

The sentence is incorrect due to the use of a hyphen instead of a proper punctuation mark to connect the two clauses.

School-Lucas

Step:

Correct sentence

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

Answer

Option

Sumup

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

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