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The Princeton Review - Princeton Review PSAT 8_9 Prep-Random House Children's Books (2021)

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CONCLUSION

In sum, we’ve looked at all the punctuation you’d ever need on the

PSAT 8/9. It’s really not so much, and you probably knew a lot of it

already. In general, checking what’s changing in the answer choices

can help reveal mistakes that you may not have heard, and POE can

help you narrow those answers down.

Punctuation rules are easy to learn, as is the biggest rule of all about

punctuation.

Know why you are using punctuation, whether that punctuation is STOP,

HALF-STOP, GO, commas, or apostrophes. If you can’t cite reasons to

use these punctuation marks, don’t use them!

In the last few pages of this chapter, try out these skills on a drill.

Answers to Questions on this page:

1. NECESSARY to the meaning of the sentence (no commas). If

you remove the italicized part, the sentence is not adequately

specific.

2. UNNECESSARY to the meaning of the sentence (commas). If

you remove the italicized part, the sentence is still complete and

does not change meaning.

3. NECESSARY to the meaning of the sentence (no commas). If

you remove the italicized part, the sentence is not adequately

specific.

4. UNNECESSARY to the meaning of the sentence (commas). If

you remove the italicized part, the sentence is still complete and

does not change meaning.

5. NECESSARY to the meaning of the sentence (no commas). If

you remove the italicized part, the sentence is no longer

complete.

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