NCO Primary Leadership Subjects
Lesson 2 Summary, Continued
Purpose of
continued
Use...
To punctuate sentences with...
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foreign words used in English sentences.
italics and
names of books, periodicals, newspapers,
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underlining
plays, movies, poems, operas.
names of vessels, aircraft, and spacecraft.
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words you want to accent.
parentheses
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explanatory material independent of the
main thought.
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clauses (where commas would be
confusing).
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letters or numbers designating items in a
series.
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figures inserted to confirm a statement.
dashes
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a sudden change in thought, or in place of
commas or parentheses.
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a final clause that summarize a series of
ideas.
a quotation mark not set off by a colon.
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Writing Mechanics and Composition
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