GRAMMAR

How is the title of a BOOK written?

• "The Outsiders"

• The Outsiders

• 'The Outsiders"

• The Outsiders

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CCSS.L.6.6

How is the title of a FILM written?

• Transformers

• TRANSFORMERS

• transformers

• Transformers

How is a POEM written?

• Nothing Gold Can Stay

• "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

• Nothing Gold Can Stay

• Nothing Gold Can Stay

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CCSS.W.6.3D

How should this name be abbreviated?: Mr. John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt

• Mr. JJJ Schmidt

• Mr. J. Jacob J-S

• Mr. J. J. Jingleheimer-Schmidt

• JJJS

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CCSS.L.7.3A

Where should the comma go in this sentence:

However I don't think we should go.

• After HOWEVER

• After THINK

• After SHOULD

• After DON'T

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CCSS.L.6.2A

Where should the comma go in this sentence?:

Yes we should go before it starts to rain.

• After SHOULD

• After YES

• After STARTS

• After BEFORE

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CCSS.L.6.2A

What is the second comma in a list called?

• A Cambridge comma

• A Harvard comma

• An Oxford comma

• A Princeton comma

Look at the underlined word. Which sentence is written INCORRECTLY?:

• Those musician's instruments were made from oil drums.

• These instruments' tones are bright and resonany.

• Steel drum music is an invention of Trinidad's people.

• This island's Carnival celebrations feature the calypso music of steel drum orchestras.

Read each sentence. Which sentence is not punctuated correctly?

• Rising sea levels--a result of global warming--threaten low-lying islands.

• Island nations in the southwest Pacific (Vanuatu is one)are losing land to sea.

• Many of these nations’ islands are very small to-begin-with.

• If sea levels rise even another foot (a likely possibility, according to some scientists), some well-populated islands will become uninhabitable.

“Haiti shares an island with the Dominican Republic doesn’t it?” asked Sal. Where should a comma be placed in this sentence?

• After Haiti

• After island

• After Republic

• After the question mark

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CCSS.L.6.2A