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Play Year 6 Punctuation Lab
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Choose semicolons, colons or dashes between supplied independent clauses.
Year 6 · English
Punctuate Independent Clauses
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Focus on using semicolons and colons to join clauses. Open support for “Understand How to Use Colons”, then explain the idea in your own words.
Year 6 learners practise using semicolons and colons to join clauses.
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- Understand How to Use Colons — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand How To Use Colons and Semicolons — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand How To Use Semicolons — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand the Correct Use of the Dash — support from Oak National Academy
- Use Colons Correctly to Add Further Information — support from Oak National Academy
- Use Semicolons Correctly — support from Oak National Academy
- Use Semicolons in a List — support from Oak National Academy
- Use Semicolons to Replace Conjunctions — support from Oak National Academy
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Colons: adding an explanation
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Semicolons: joining related independent clauses
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Paired dashes: parenthesis and emphasis
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Semicolons: separating detailed list items
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Colons: explanations and noun-phrase emphasis
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Colons for explanations — Task B
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Semicolons between clauses — Tasks A and B
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Single and paired dash substitutions — worksheet and answers
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Detailed lists with semicolons — Task A only
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