Punctuation Review Quiz

Buy your own pens! You cannot borrow ours.

• Ours does not need an apostrophe.

• Ours should have an apostrophe between the r and s: our’s.

• Ours should have an apostrophe after the s: ours’.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.2D

If I had a million dollars, I would visit London, England, Cairo, Egypt, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Tokyo, Japan.

• All of the punctuation is correct.

• Change the commas after England, Egypt, and Argentina to semicolons (;).

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

I really dislike writing outlines for reports nevertheless, the highest grade I ever received was for a report that I wrote from an outline.

• All of the punctuation is correct.

• Insert a semicolon after reports.

• Insert a dash after reports.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

We have to write reports for gym class on one of the following athletes: Jesse Owens, Sonja Henie, Jim Brown, Althea Gibson, or Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

• All of the punctuation is correct.

• Change the colon to a semicolon.

• Change the colon to a dash.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill brought floods of people settlers, miners, and prospectors to California in their covered wagons.

• All punctuation is correct.

• Place settlers, miners, and prospectors in-between parentheses.

• Place settlers, miners, and prospectors in-between dashes.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

They were greatly disappointed in the quality of the expensive video which had been produced by a well respected company.

• All punctuation is correct.

• Insert a hyphen between well and respected.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Before arriving at the station, the old train (someone said it was a relic of frontier days) caught fire.

• All punctuation is correct.

• Replace parentheses with colons.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

The alarm clocks buzz startled Shane awake.

• Clocks does not need an apostrophe.

• Clocks should have an apostrophe between the k and s: clock’s.

• Clocks should have an apostrophe after the s: clocks’

Tags

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.2D

The senator presented as evidence the anti-American pamphlets distributed by the terrorist group.

• All punctuation is correct.

• Remove the hyphen.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2A

Call down the following people to the office after class — Sam Spade, Leslie Ledbetter, and Mary Marionette.

• All punctuation is correct.

• Change the dash to a hyphen.

• Change the dash to a colon.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B