Punctuation

Because her alarm was _______________ she was not able to wake up early.

• broken

• broken,

• ,broken

I told my daughter that students _____________ will just make things worse in the end.

• who, cheat

• who cheat,

• who cheat

In this situation ______________________ I don't think you were to blame.

• ,however

• , however,

• however

A comma is used to show contraction of words.

• True

• False

A hyphen is used to link prefixes to words.

• True

• False

A colon is used to introduce a series.

• True

• False

A semicolon is used to set off less important details.

• True

• False

A question mark is used to show a strong emotion or to give a command.

• True

• False

A hyphen is used to join two or more words together into a compound term.

• True

• False

A parenthesis is used to indicate possession.

• True

• False