Teaching your students to use punctuation in accordance to the conventions of the language is quite a task. There is so much to learn that often even the teachers aren’t certain about all of the rules. If you are feeling at all uncertain, I suggest that you first brush up on your understanding of sentence structure.
This page contains an overview of the punctuation worksheets and activities on this site. I hope that you find these activities useful in your pursuit.
Practice End Marks 1 – Students read each sentence and determine whether to put a period, exclamation point, or question mark at the end. What a great way to finish a unit on sentence types.
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Practice with End Marks 2 – This worksheet has over 30 end mark problems to help your students achieve mastery.
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Practice with Commas Worksheet – Put commas where they belong. A few of the sentences do not need commas.
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Comma Uses Handout – Not actually a worksheet, but a handout that show students 10 uses for commas and also details some frequent misuses.
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Commas, Colons, and Semicolons PowerPoint Lesson – This animated slideshow will teach students about the appropriate and necessary conditions for using punctuation. This lesson includes a practice activity after the lesson.
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Commas or Semicolons Worksheet 1: Determine whether the clauses need to be joined with commas or semicolons. Put the proper punctuation on the blank. Then write original sentences using semicolons.
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Commas or Semicolons Worksheet 02 – Want a reason to celebrate? How about another 20 problem comma or semicolon worksheet? Wait. It gets better. You can complete it online using any device with a modern Internet browser. Seriously. Try it out.
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Sentence Combining with Pirates: Combine the sentences to make compound and complex sentences. Remove or add words if necessary. After you have combined the sentences, circle whether you created a compound or complex sentence.
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The Death of Hamilton Sentence Combining Activity: read the passage about the Hamilton/Burr duel. Add sophistication by combining sentences and rewriting the passage. Add coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and use semicolons and commas.
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Yashfa Baig
/ November 16, 2022Hi!
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I am from pakistan. Well you know there are IKLC so I opened this website of punctuation because it was of english. I practice every day on this . So thank you so much that you made this website. So that everyone can learn So love from Pakistan and Yashfa.
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/ September 14, 2021The resources has helped me a lot.
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EENO
/ July 12, 2021Hello! Thank you for all the resources you have here! I am a Spanish teacher, but this summer I took on the challenge of teaching English. This website is a lifesaver! Thank you!!
Mr. Morton
/ July 12, 2021I’m glad to help. Thank you for visiting!
GMC
/ June 2, 2017On the online quizzes, when they ask you to create your own sentences, there is no way to tell whether or not the sentence was written correctly. Is this a feature that can be added?
Mr. Morton
/ August 1, 2017That feature is beyond the scope of my abilities at this time. Best wishes!
R C
/ March 9, 2017Are there answer sheets?
Mary
/ June 10, 2017Very good worksheets
ali raza
/ January 4, 2017English is a important language
Tiffany Williams
/ March 28, 2013On the Compound complex worksheet, I believe the students’ answer choices are to read “compound or complex” vs. “simple or complex”…
Mr. Morton
/ March 28, 2013You are absolutely right. Thanks for reporting this. I have fixed the error(s).