Punctuation marks

How do you make the contraction for was not?

• wasn't
• wasnnt
• wasnt'
• was'nt

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.2.4

CCSS.RF.2.3C

What is the name of this punctuation mark?

• an apostrophe

• a full stop

• a comma

• quotation marks

Which punctuation mark is for signaling the end of a sentence?

• a full stop

• quotation marks

• a comma

• an apostrophe

What is the name of this punctuation mark?

• a period

• a full stop

• a comma

• quotation marks

What is used to show a pause in dialogue or to show that words or sentences have been left out? (HINT: ...)

• comma

• space

• hyphen

• ellipses

Tags

CCSS.L.8.2A

CCSS.L.8.2B

In the following sentence, where does a hyphen need added: Yesterday, my cousin turned twenty five.

• Yester-day

• my-cousin

• twenty-five

• turn-ed

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2

CCSS.L.11-12.2A

What is used to divide words at the end of a line and to form compound words?

• dash

• comma

• ellipses

• hyphen

__ a nice day.

• Its
• It's

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1

CCSS.L.11-12.2

This mark is used before a list or quote, between hours and minutes, or mathematical ratios.

• colon
• ellipis
• exclamation point
• parentheses

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

What does a comma do?

• make the sentence stop

• make a pause

• ask a question

• sound excited