7th grade punctuation worksheets
Seven punctuation skills at 7th grade, one sheet each, free with its answer key: commas after introductory phrases, commas between coordinate adjectives, commas for extra detail, and more.
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- Commas after introductory phrases When a sentence starts with a warm-up phrase, a comma marks where the real sentence begins: After the storm, we raked the yard.
- Commas between coordinate adjectives Two adjectives that could swap places, or that sound right with and between them, need a comma. Otherwise they do not.
- Commas for extra detail Extra information rides in the sentence wrapped in commas: My bike, which has a bell, lives on the porch. Lift it out and you still know which bike.
- Hyphens When two or more words work together as one describing word in front of a noun, join them with hyphens: a ten-minute break. Self-, ex- and all- always take a hyphen, and so do the numbers twenty-one to ninety-nine.
- Punctuating titles of short works Short works wear quotation marks: poems, songs, stories, and articles. 'The Raven' is a poem; a whole book would be underlined or set in italics instead.
- Semicolons and colons A semicolon joins two sentences that could stand alone. A colon introduces what comes next: a list, an example, a name, or a sentence that explains the first one.
- The dash and the ellipsis A dash marks a sudden break or sets off a list that renames something. An ellipsis shows that speech or writing trailed off.
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