Colons and Underlining - Quiz 1, Periodo 2

It is a punctuation mark used to precede a list of items, a quotation, an expansion or explanation.

• Colon

• Underlining

• Apostrophe

Colons rules are:

- Use a colon between the hour and the minute when you write the time.

- Use a colon between the chapter and the verse when you write a Bible reference.

- Use a colon after the greeting of a business letter.

• False

• True

Read carefully at the following sentence and write what colons rule has been used:

Language class starts at 10:00 a.m.

• Biblical reference

• time

• Greeting of a business letter

What is underlining?

• It is a horizontal line immediately below a piece of writing, to indicate emphasis.

• Punctuation marks used chiefly to indicate the beginning and the end of a quotation.

• It is a punctuation mark used to precede a list of items, a quotation, an expansion or explanation.

We use underlining for the titles of books, newspapers, magazines, ships, plays, and works of art.

• false

• true

Read carefully at the following sentences, and choose the option is correctly underlined.

- Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

- I like reading cartoons in The New York Times.

- The U.S.S. Constitution fought in the First Barbary War.

• cartoons, fought, painted

• Leonardo da Vinci, I like reading, First Barbary War

• Mona Lisa, New York Times, Constitution