Colons, Semicolons, and Hyphens

^{Where does the semicolon go?}

Dad is going bald his hair is getting thinner and thinner.

• Dad;
• bald;
• getting;
• hair;

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

 Which sentence uses the semicolon correctly?

• The man was wet he was standing in the rain; without an umbrella.
• The man was wet he was; standing in the rain without an umbrella.
•  The man was wet; he was standing in the rain without an umbrella.
• None of the above

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

You will need the following ingredients milk, sugar, flour, and eggs.

• ingredients; milk
• ingredients: milk
• ingredients, milk

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

This is what Plato had to say about mathematicians “I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”

• mathematicians:
• ,mathematicians,
• mathematicians;
• As it is

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

After which WORDS should a semi-colon be inserted?

This summer I am going to visit Memphis, Tennessee Little Rock, Arkansas and St. Louis, Missouri.

• visit and Memphis

• Tennessee and Arkansas

• Arkansas and St. Louis

• Little Rock and Arkansas

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

My head was pounding, so I took some fast acting medicine.

• fast-acting
• fast-acting-medicine
• acting-medicine
• Correct as is

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

You need one-third of a cup of sugar for that recipe.

• one third
• of-a-cup
• one-third-of-a-cup
• Correct as is

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Which of the following options uses proper punctuation?

• I saw a duck billed platypus at the city-zoo.
• I saw a duck-billed platypus at the city zoo.
• I saw a duck-billed-platypus at the city zoo.
• I saw a duck billed platypus--at the city zoo.

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

The places I like to visit are as follows: Italy, France, and Canada.

Is the colon in the correct place?

• no

• yes

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Choose the correct punctuation mark to fill the blank in the following sentence: The students were studying for their history test _____ it covers everything from the 1400's to the 1890's.

• comma

• colon

• semicolon

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A