ACT English Punctuation Rules

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0:00 Introduction
0:59 Commas in a List
1:34 Commas After Introductory Clauses
2:18 Practice At Lady Liberty's foot there is a shackle and broken chain, indicating the abolition of slavery.
3:00 Commas to Offset Extra Information
8:46 Commas and Coordinating Conjunctions
10:50 Practice Bryson ran his fastest time to sate yet he did not win the race
12:04 Semicolons
13:20 Dashes Dashes have two uses--to add information to a sentence or to offset information within a sentence. As with a pair of commas, when offsetting extra info in a sentence, if the words between the dashes are removed from the sentence, the sentence should still make sense.