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Title: Colons and dashes

Grade: 8-a Lesson: S6-L2

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Step	Type	Explanation	Answer
1	Problem	You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience, you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice.
2	Clue	Punctuations help end, pause, and emphasize certain sentence parts.
3	Hint	A semicolon is used to join two logically connected independent clauses together, and the dash is used to provide additional information that complements the main purpose of the sentence.
4	Sumup	Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?
5	Choice.A	You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience, you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice. The provided sentences are incorrect due to the use of a comma instead of a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon between the two independent clauses.	No change
6	Choice.B	You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience. you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice. The provided sentences are incorrect due to the use of a period instead of a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon to connect the two closely related independent clauses.	your audience. you must
7	Choice.C	You must be able to hold the attention and interest of yours audience: you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice. The sentence you provided is incorrect due to the use of a colon after "yours audience." A colon is typically used to introduce a list, explanation, or amplification, but it doesn’t appropriately connect the two independent clauses in this context.	yours audience: you must
8	Choice.D	You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice. The sentence is grammatically sound, clear, and concise, making it an effective expression of the qualities expected in a speaker.	your audience; you must
9	Step:	Correct sentence	You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice.
10	Answer	Option	D
11	Sumup	Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

Step

Type

Explanation

Answer

Problem

You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience, you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice.

Clue

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

Hint

A semicolon is used to join two logically connected independent clauses together, and the dash is used to provide additional information that complements the main purpose of the sentence.

Sumup

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

Choice.A

You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience, you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice.

The provided sentences are incorrect due to the use of a comma instead of a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon between the two independent clauses.

No change

Choice.B

You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience. you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice.

The provided sentences are incorrect due to the use of a period instead of a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon to connect the two closely related independent clauses.

your audience. you must

Choice.C

You must be able to hold the attention and interest of yours audience: you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice.

The sentence you provided is incorrect due to the use of a colon after "yours audience." A colon is typically used to introduce a list, explanation, or amplification, but it doesn’t appropriately connect the two independent clauses in this context.

yours audience: you must

Choice.D

You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice.

The sentence is grammatically sound, clear, and concise, making it an effective expression of the qualities expected in a speaker.

your audience; you must

Step:

Correct sentence

You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker with a good, pleasing voice.

Answer

Option

Sumup

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

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