More Quiz practice

What comma rule? (from your self-graded exercises?

When World War I began, the school transformed itself into a Red Cross hospital.

• Direct address

• Introductory phrase

• introductory dependent clause

• the sentence is not correct

What comma rule? (from your self-graded exercises?)

After studying nursing in London, Edith Louisa Cavell became head of training.

• Direct address

• Introductory phrase

• introductory dependent clause

• the sentence is not correct

What comma rule? (from your self-graded exercises?)

Nurses today work at hospitals, schools, camps, homes, and workplaces.

• coordinate adjectives

• Introductory phrase

• 3 or more in a series

• the sentence is not correct

What comma rules? (from your self-graded exercises)

Thanks to her, I believe, nursing became a respectable important profession.

• nonessential interrupter

• nonessential parenthetical expressions

• direct address

• the sentence is not punctuated correctly

What are 2 "tests" to determine comma are needed for coordinate adjectives

• there are no tests; it is hit or miss

• put "and" in between and does the sentence still make sense

• take out a few adjectives

• switch or reverse the order of the adjectives and does the sentence still make sense

What is the last comma before the 'and' called in a series or list of more than 3

• Harvard comma

• London comma

• nuisance comma

• Oxford comma

When do you not use the last comma before the 'and' in a list or series of more than 3 items?

• when there are more than 5 items

• when there is no 'and' in the list or series

• when the last two items belong together

• it's totally random when to use it

Which of the following are punctuated correctly?(from your self graded exercises)

• The play is scheduled for December 19, 2000 to January 9, 2001, but there may be an extension.

• The address of the auditorium is 75 Brinton Street, Toledo, Ohio, 05678.

• The playwright was born July 4, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York.

• Unfortunately, we will be in San Francisco, California, that weekend for the convention Grandpa likes to attend.

What rule applies to the following example from your exercises.

Training was based on apprenticeship, and students learned from older students.

• comma before coordinating conjunction followed by an independent clauses

• comma before every and any coordinating conjunction

• compound sentence joined with a semicolon

• compound sentence joined with a coordinating conjunction

Is the following sentence from your self graded packet simple or complex and what is the comma rule?

After completing an associate or baccalaureate degree program, graduates can use the initials RN (registered nurse) after their name.

• simple

• complex

• introductory phrase of more than 3 words

• introductory dependent clause