OBJECTIVE: Students will use colons correctly in their writing.
OPENING ACTIVITY:
The key to understanding colons is to understand that they always come AFTER a complete sentence.
Sometimes the colons introduce a list. Sometimes the colons introduce a quotation.
Please review sentence fragments so that you will be able to do the colon work down below. Here is a quiz to test your ability to identify a complete sentence in a group of fragments.
Sometimes the colons introduce a list. Sometimes the colons introduce a quotation.
Please review sentence fragments so that you will be able to do the colon work down below. Here is a quiz to test your ability to identify a complete sentence in a group of fragments.
INSTRUCTION: Read and take notes on the colon from the two sources below. If you have headphones, you can plug in and listen to the podcast on the Grammar Girl site while you read.
PRACTICE: All of these websites will provide you the answers to the practice problems. Make sure that if you are making an error that you are learning from your mistakes.