Writing Staar

A hobby is an activity that someone does for enjoyment in their free time.

To excel in a subject means to perform very well or to be highly skilled in that area.

A comma is used to separate ideas or items in a list, or to indicate a pause in a sentence.

A quote should be enclosed in quotation marks, and punctuation should be placed inside the quotation marks.

A conjunction is a word that connects clauses or sentences, such as 'and', 'but', or 'or'.

'Its' is a possessive pronoun meaning 'belonging to it', while 'it's' is a contraction for 'it is'.

A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation.

A period is used to indicate the end of a declarative sentence.

Making no change means that the original sentence is correct as it is and does not need any modifications.

An apostrophe is used in contractions to show where letters have been omitted, such as in 'don't' for 'do not'.