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Watch this video: it explains how we can use colons and semi-colons can join two sentences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnQU2v2kMFA 

Remember: there are other reasons why we use colons and semi-colons.

Activity:

Meet two new types of punctuation ; and :  They can be used to join two sentences but also used for other reasons too. Read these explanations to help you.

Colon:

• Used to introduce a list.
• Or a summary.
• Or an example.
• Or a quotation.
• Introduces a second clause that explains the first.

Semicolon:

• Used to separate two closely linked clauses.
• Shows there is some link between two things it separates.
• Can be used to separate complicated items in a list (where a comma won’t do the job so well).

Exercise A:

Read each of these examples and match them to the explanations above.

1. My teacher always says: “The colon is a funny little mark.”
2. We have learned the following: salt dissolves in water.
3. The water evaporated; I said it would.
4. Salt dissolves in water; sugar does too.
5. Our saucers contained salt; water and sugar; salt and water; sugar and water and water on its own.
6. The water evaporated; it turned into water vapour.
7. For this experiment you will need: a glass of water, a teaspoon of salt.
8. Some materials dissolve, for example: salt in water, sugar in coffee.

You don’t need to write out the sentences again just set your work out like this:

Sentence 1- colon used for quotation

Sentence 2 –colon used for _______.

*Challenge*

Look at these sentences.  Should it have a colon or a semi colon?

Write them out neatly and add in the colon or semicolon:

1. Here is what you need _____ an egg, a candle and a piece of string.
2. I like playtime _____ Josh does too.
3. This story teaches us the lesson _____don’t count your chickens before they hatched.
4. Playtime was cancelled ______ we were not pleased!

Plenary:

Read a book, newspaper, magazine or article online.  Scan your text for colons and semicolons.  Can you explain why they have been used?