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[YOUR] BOOK OF WRITING SECTION 1 PUNCTUATION and CAPITALIZATION Punctuation – Identify the functions of each mark and create one (1) example sentence of the usage for each mark.
1. . -Period YouTube has a very popular content creator named Mr. Beast. 2. , Comma Some YouTubers start like: “Hello, and welcome back to the channel.” 3. – Em Dash YouTube has made people famous -- such as Mr. Beast, PewDiePie, and T-Series. 4. - En Dash I´d rate YouTube on a scale of 1-10, a 9 because there are too many ads. 5. : Colon YouTube: a place where you can watch anything you want to see. 6. ; Semicolon Youtube; a multi million dollar app that lets you download it for the low low price of free! 7. ? Interrogative: Does YouTube have any type of videos? 8. ! Exclamatory Of course they do! 9. ‘ Apostrophe 10. “ ” Possession “YouTube has over 2 billion monthly active users. “ - As stated by Backlindo.com 11. … Ellipsis The most viewed video is Despacito by Luis Fonsi... which i’m not happy about. 12. [ ] Brackets “This video is [Not] unavailable.” -YouTube 13. ( ) Parenthetical “YouTube will book between $29 billion and $30 billion in revenue this year (they are about to tie Netflix in revenue).” 14. / Backslash You get revenue from YouTube if you get a lot of views and subscribers, YouTubers have the option to check out and/or save the revenue to earn more.
EX: Comma (used to switch words around in a list) – Students at Bravo can freely choose between AP World History, AP US History, AP Government, and AP European History.
Capitalization – Identify and create one (1) example sentence for each rule of capitalization.
1. Please list the rules of capitalization here: 3
1. To start a sentence I watch YouTube everyday. 2. Capitalize pronouns A woman named Susan Wojcicki 3. Capitalize proper nouns YouTube is a proper noun. 4. Capitalize Days, Months, and Holidays YouTube was created on
February 14, 2005 5. Capitalize Most words of titles ¨The Wonderful World of YouTube¨
This is Jimmy Donaldson, commonly known as Mr. Beast has over 80 Million subscribers on his main channel.
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PARTS OF SPEECH
NOUNS
Types of nouns: (list three to five words of each type)
· Common Nouns: name a class of people, places, things, or ideas. Content Creators, YouTube, Videos, · Proper Nouns: give the name or title of a particular person, place, thing, or idea (must be capitalized). MrBeast, Pewdiepie, T-Series, San Mateo (where YouTube was created) · Compound Nouns: consist of words used together to form a single noun. EX: videos, creations, useful · Concrete Nouns: refer to material things, to people, or to places. YouTubers, Phones, Technology · Abstract Nouns: name ideas, qualities, concepts, emotions, or
attitudes.
Functions (How nouns are used): Write one sentence for each function.
· Subject (comes before the verb) Mr. Beast gives money away to random subscribers.
· Direct Object (comes after the verb and answers what or whom) Mr. Beast asked Pewdiepie to comment on his video.
· Indirect Object (answers to who or to whom) Mr. Beast gave $500,000 to the subscriber that won the contest.
PRONOUNS
Pronouns take the place of nouns that have been established.
Personal:
Nominative (subjects) Objective (objects)
I/we me/us
you/you you/you 5
He, she, it, one/they him, her, it, one/them
Possessive
My, mine
our, ours Your, yours your, yours His, her, hers, its, one’s their, theirs
Relative:
Nominative who
That Objective whom that those/ this Possessive whose of that
Interrogative:
who, which, what, whatever, whoever
Reflexive: (personal pronouns plus the suffix –self or –selves)
Used only: when the action verb is directed toward the subject of the construction: Lachlan gives himself a great rating for his Fortnite Icon Series Skin and harshly rates the other Icon skins. Lazarbeam bought himself a hundred cardboard cutouts of his icon skin.
to intensify a point:
Ninja himself delivered the speech about his skin in Fortnite. Even though it was hard work, “It finally paid off”, Ninja said (not really).
Demonstrative:
this, these that, those
Indefinite:
all, another, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, everywhere, few, many, much, neither, nobody, none, no one, nothing, one, other, several, somebody, someone, such.
VERBS
Verbs show the time, action, and state of being of a subject.
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Tense: verbs indicate time via tenses:
simple past past past perfect past progressive simple present present present perfect present progressive present perfect progressive future future perfect
Types: There are at least eleven (11) types of verbs: auxiliary verbs (helping verbs) linking verbs (verbs that do not describe action, but connect the subject of a sentence to other parts of the sentence – usually the predicate) lexical verbs (main verbs) dynamic verbs (indicate action) stative verbs (describe a condition) finitive verbs (indicate tense) infinitive verbs (infinitives or participles) regular verbs (weak verbs) irregular verbs (strong verbs) transitive verbs (verbs followed by a direct object) intransitive verbs (verbs that do not take direct objects)
Voice: Voice is the form of the verb that indicates how it relates or interacts with the action. The English language has two voices: ACTIVE and PASSIVE. Active: The youtubers got their revenue check in the mail. (YouTubers are the
subject)
Passive: The mail has brought the revenue checks to the YouTubers. (YouTubers are the subject but treated as the object)
Verbals: (VERB FORMS NOT USED AS VERBS)
Gerund: word ending in “ing” used as a noun. · Lazarbeam enjoys memeing on Fortnite. Participle: word ending in “ing” or “ed” used as an adjective · There really is a striking policy on YouTube. · Lazarbeam carefully did not swear to not get striked. Infinitive: verb preceded by the word “to” (to go, to jump) used as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs
· Ninja used to swear at the start of his career.
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ADJECTIVES
Adjectives modify, describe, limit, and identify nouns and pronouns. · Kinds: Demonstrative, Common, Proper (Give one example of each using words related to your subject)
ADVERBS
Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. · Endings (Create one example related to your subject for each) –ly, -wards, -wise - (Not a real YouTube) Mystery: Look closely as we scroll backwards, the clock is moving rapidly clockwise. · Conversions (Show how three words related to your subject can become adverbs – Example: “Educational” becomes “Educationally”) - I strongly recommend YouTube to people who don´t know what it is. - You can make an account easily with your email. - There are hardly any issues with YouTube on lag but it depends on how great your internet connection is. Types:
Manner, Frequency, Degree, Place, Time
Example Types: (Create one example each related to your subject) Manner – Lazarbeam responded nicely to stop sending him knives quickly.
(How did she respond?) Time – Mr. Beast will leave the facility immediately. (When will he leave?) Place – Mark Rober was willingly here earlier today working on a new mechanism. (Where was he?) Degree – Ms. Beast’s exceptionally good work cannot be over-recognized. (How good is she?) Frequency – mrfreshasian is consistently uploading Fortnite content to viewers around the arounf. (How often is he uploading?)
CONJUNCTIONS
Coordinating (FANBOYS): for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Correlative: Either/or; neither/nor; not only/but also; both/and; whether/or; as/so 8
Subordinate: after, though as, as if, as long as, as thought, because, before, if, in order that, provided that, since, so, so that, that, though, till, unless, when, where, whereas, while
Relative pronouns: who (refers to people), which (refers to nonliving object or animals), that (may refer to animals or nonliving objects)
PREPOSITIONS
Prepositions link nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other parts of the sentence. Prepositions are NEVER followed by verbs. There are one-word prepositions and complex prepositions. These are some common one-word prepositions: aboard, about, above, according to, across, across from, after, against, along, alongside, alongside of, along with, amid, among, apart from, around, as, as far as, aside from, at, away from, back of, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but (except), by, by means of, concerning, despite, down, down from, except, except excluding for, for, from, from among, from between, from under, in, in addition to, in behalf of, including, in front of, in place of, in regard to, inside, inside of, in spite of, instead of, into, like, near, near to, notwithstanding, of, off, on, on account of, on behalf of, onto, on top of, opposite, out, out of, outside, outside of, over, over to, owing to, past, prior to, to, toward, under, underneath, until, unto, up, upon, up to, versus, with, within, without.
INTERJECTIONS
Interjections are the final part of speech. Find and copy/paste an alphabetical list of interjections here. A - ah B - bye C - crikey, come on D - duh E - easy does it, exactly F - fair enough G - get outta here, get lost, go on H - ha, hmm, ha-ha I - I say J - just a sec, just kidding K - N/A L - long time, look here 9
M - most certainly, my word, my my N - nah, no, nooo, no way O - oh, oh-oh, oh no, okay P - peace Q - quite R - ready, right, roger, roger that S - shh, sorry, shame T - take that, thanks, there there U - ugh, uh-oh, um, ur V - very nice, very well W - whatever, when, what X - N/A Y - yea, yeah, yikes Z - zzz
