MUG 10

mug #10
Copy these answers into your notebook and glue #10 into the grammar section.

Multiple Choice

How should short stories be punctuated?

• Short stories should be punctuated using italics and quotation marks.

• Short stories should be punctuated by underlining the title.

• Short stories should be punctuated using quotation marks.

• Short stories should not be punctuated at all.

Multiple Choice

words like a, an, and the are called------

• articles
• nouns
• verbs
• adjectives

Multiple Choice

Two sentences joined without end stop punctuation are called a------

• comma splice sentence

• run-on sentence
• incomplete sentence
• fragment sentence

Drag and Drop

In "The Scarlet Ibis," a short story by James Hurst, a boy named Doodle is symbolically connected to an exotic bird ​

Placeholder

the author did this to show the beauty of a fragile life.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

;

,

-

!

?

Multiple Choice

True or False- you should always capitalize the first letter after using a semi-colon just like you should if it's a period.

• Sometimes
• False
• Only in formal writing
• True

Fill in the Blanks

Multiple Choice

When writing about literature, we should always use which verb tense?

• imperative tense
• future tense
• past tense
• present tense

Drag and Drop

The author ​

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this to show the beauty of a fragile life.

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does

did

will do

didn't

has done

Multiple Choice

Select the correctly punctuated passage

• In "The Scarlet Ibis" a short story by James Hurst, a boy named Doodle is symbolically connected to an exotic bird the author does this to show the beuty of a fragile life.

• In "The Scarlet Ibis," a short story by James Hurst, a boy named Doodle is symbolically connected to an exotic bird the author does this to show the beauty of a fragile life.

• In "The Scarlet Ibis," a short story by James Hurst, a boy named Doodle is symbolically connected to an exotic bird; the author does this to show the beauty of a fragile life.

• In "The Scarlet Ibis", a short story by James Hurst, a boy named Doodle is symbolically connected to an exotic bird the author does this to show the beauty of a fragile life.

​

​

​

Multiple Choice

heavy/unrelenting are what parts of speech?

• verbs
• nouns
• adjectives
• adverbs

Multiple Choice

How should heavy and unrelenting be punctuated without the word and in between them?

• !
• -
• .
• ,

Drag and Drop

The bird whipped ​

Placeholder

wings wildly as it flew through heavy, unrelenting rain and wind.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

its

it's

it is

its'

Multiple Choice

The bird whipped ​ itswings wildly as it flew through heavy, unrelenting rain, and wind.

Should there be a comma in between rain and wind?

• Maybe
• No
• Sometimes
• Yes