Editing: Colon Usage (Practice)

✍️ Today's hook

Add a colon: She packed three things a book, a pencil, and a snack.

🔥 Warm-up scribble

Write the shortest sentence you can think of. Now make it longer with one word.

🪶 Mentor sentence

🧱 "It was raining." → "Rain hammered the windows like an angry visitor."

What to do

Add a colon: She packed three things a book, a pencil, and a snack. Then write your own similar example.

Add a colon: She packed three things a book, a pencil, and a snack. Then write your own similar example.

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