✏️ Grammar & Conventions: Colons and Quotations (Grade 10)

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Use colons to introduce lists, explanations and quotations.

1. Add a colon: The answer was simple practice.

2. Add a colon: Frost ends with a famous line "And that has made all the difference."

3. Add a colon: She packed the essentials a map, water, and a flashlight.

4. Add a colon: There are three branches legislative, executive, and judicial.

Answer key: 1) The answer was simple: practice. · 2) Frost ends with a famous line: "And that has made all the difference." · 3) She packed the essentials: a map, water, and a flashlight. · 4) There are three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.

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Free Grade 10 English worksheet (Common Core L.9-10.2.b): use colons to introduce lists, explanations and quotations. Skill: Use colons to introduce lists, explanations and quotations. Level: Grade 10 — also suits Year 11 (UK).

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CCSS L.9-10.2.b: Use a colon to introduce a list or quotation
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Use colons to introduce lists, explanations and quotations.

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