Writing STAAR Punctuation

My mom has always wanted to visit Denver Colorado and go snow skiing there.

• Insert a comma after Denver

• Insert a comma after and

• Insert a comma after Colorado

Martin screamed with excitement, I got an A on my test!

• Delete the comma after excitement

• Add quotation marks before I and before the exclamation mark

• Add quotation marks before I and after the exclamation mark

Mrs. Ratcliff gave me a choice to do my homework this week or she would call me father.

• Insert a comma after week

• Change Mrs. to Mrs

• Insert a comma after choice

I called 911 to get help but it was a long time before an ambulance arrived.

• Change the period to an exclamation mark

• Insert a comma after help

• Insert a comma after time

"Hurry up, and clean your room!" demanded Mom."

• Change the exclamation mark to a comma

• Delete the comma after up

• Delete the quotation mark after the period

I have always tried to be a good friend yet I can't say that everyone is the same way.

• Change can't to cant

• Insert a comma after friend

• Insert a comma after yet

I would never hit John nor have I ever hit anyone else.

• Insert a comma before nor

• Add quotation marks before the first I and after the period

• Change the period to a question mark

Which of the following closings to a letter is written correctly?

• Your Friend,

• sincerely,

• Thank you,

Barnett loves to hunt but he doesn't like to get up early to do it.

• Change doesn't to does'nt

• Insert a comma after hunt

• Insert a comma after like

It was a stormy wet morning when I ran to the bus stop.

• Change the period to a question mark

• Insert a comma after stormy

• Insert a comma after morning