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Grade 8 ELA: Punctuation — Ellipsis, Dashes & Conventions Mastery
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Date
1.
What is an ellipsis?
2.
What can an em dash do?
3.
When might you use an ellipsis in a quotation?
4.
What is a pause signaled by ellipsis in dialogue?
5.
Parentheses vs dash: which often feels more abrupt?
6.
Fix: 'Wait I ' (trailing off in dialogue — use ellipsis).
7.
What is a convention in writing?
8.
Should you invent random dot counts for ellipses?
9.
Define ellipsis.
10.
Define em dash use.
11.
What is omission in a quote?
12.
What is a writing convention?
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