7th Grade Language Arts - Sentences, Phrases, Clauses

End Mark

• Determine correct end mark punctuation in a sentence (i.e., period, question mark, and exclamation mark)

• Identify the appropriate use of punctuation in sentences, phrases, and clauses

• Identify the appropriate use of punctuation with quotations and dialogue

Commas

• Use commas between words, phrases, or clauses

• Use commas in addresses, dates, friendly and business letters, and words in a series

• Use commas to set off direct quotations in a sentence

• Identify correct use to set off the exact words of a speaker and to separate a noun of direct address or explanatory phrase from rest of the sentence

• Identify correct comma use between two independent clauses, which are joined by coordinate conjunctions

• Identify correct comma use to separate an adverb phrase or clause from the independent clause

• Use a comma to separate city and state

Semi-Colon

• Use semi-colon correctly in a compound sentence

Colon

• Use colon correctly in a salutation of a business letter

Quotation Marks

• Identify correct quotation mark use before and after direct quotations

• Identify correct quotation mark use in titles of books, songs, poems, short stories, television programs, chapters of books, article in magazines, newspapers, and encyclopedias

• Identify correct quotation mark use to indicate a word is slang or being used in a special way

• Punctuate correctly with direct quotations within the context of phrases, sentences, clauses, or short paragraphs

• Use a comma before a quotation when the speaker's name comes first

• Use a comma, question mark, period, or an exclamation mark to end the quotation when the speaker's name comes last

• Use quotation marks around titles of poems, short stories, songs, articles, and book chapters

• Use a comma to separate the name from the quotation when a quotation is interrupted by the speaker's name

Proper Nouns

• Capitalize the name of a particular person, pet, place, thing, or idea

• Capitalize initials

• Capitalize geographical names

• Capitalize languages, races, nationalities, and religions

• Capitalize titles used with names of persons

• Capitalize definite regions not referring to direction

• Capitalize the first person pronoun "I"

Capitalize Title

• Capitalize first word of a title, last word and every word in between except articles, short prepositions, and short conjunctions (book, newspaper, poem, song, movie, book chapter, magazine, article, play, film work of art, picture)

Apostrophe

• Use an apostrophe to show that one or more letters have been left out of a word to form a contraction or to show words spelled as they are actually spoken

• Identify and use an apostrophe to show that one or more numbers have been left out of numerals

• Use an apostrophe to form the plural of a letter, number, sign, or word

• Use an apostrophe to form possessive nouns

City/State

• Capitalize name of a city

• Capitalize name of a state

Letter Parts

• Identify the parts of a business letter

• Identify the parts of a friendly letter

• Compare and contrast business and friendly letters

Proper Adjectives

• Identify adjectives that are capitalized because they are derived from proper nouns

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