Capitalize, Punctuate and Linking Ideas

Today we will be talking about our upcoming weekends, giving advice, checking homework and preparing for our written exam. 

We also need to look deeper into our writing. We will build on our topic sentence and create a short paragraph. We will also look at punctuation, capitalization and conjunctions.

Please see below to prepare yourself for these 3 skills that you might be familiar with, but need a review. This will help! 

Conjunctions: (but, and, so, or, etc): use a comma before the word.

Transition Phrases: (However, In addition, Therefore): use a period before the word

Capitalization:

Capitalize the first word of every sentence, proper nouns and 'I.'

Conjunctions (but, and, so, or, etc): lower case or not capitalized

Transition Phrases: (However, In addition, Therefore): upper case or capitalized

Common Connectors (Linking words and phrases)

If you are starting a sentence with the following words, consider putting a comma (not a period) before it, or use the words/phrases that follow after the period:

And:

Also,…	In addition,…	As well as this,…	Besides this,
Moreover,	Similarly,…	Furthermore,	Likewise,…

But:

However,…	On the other hand,	In contrast,…
Rather,…	Despite this, …	Nonetheless,…

So:

As a result, …	Therefore,…
Consequently,…	In this/that case,…

Because: (some don’t use commas)

Because of this,…	Due to this,…
This causes…	The reason why…	That’s because…