Punctuation

Which may be put before a list, a quotation, direct speech, or an explanation to introduce it?

• a hyphen

• a colon

• a semi-colon

Which can be used instead of a full stop (or period) to separate two closely connected sentences?

• a semi-colon

• a comma

• a colon

"I wonder where John is. Do you know." This needs a question mark after

• the first sentence

• the second sentence

• both sentences

An exclamation mark is usually used after an exclamation or

• a description

• a proposition

• an interjection

"Dan loves cooking his pets and his friends." The writer meant to list three things Dan loves, but he forgot to put

• a colon after loves

• a comma after cooking

• a dash after pets

Which is another word for quotation mark?

• inverted comma

• inverted comma

• speech mark

Which includes an apostrophe indicating the possessive form?

• Our dog's hungry.

• Fido's dinner's ready.

• Fido's got his dinner.

Apostrophes can show where letters are missing in _______ words.

• contracted

• misspelled

• censored

Where does the semicolon go in this sentence?

"We had too many fumbles we lost the game."

• In between "lost" and "the"

• In between "fumbles" and "we"

• Before "We"

• After "game"

Where does a semicolon belong?

• Between closely related independent clauses

• Sometimes instead of using a comma

• avoid confusion when you have complicated lists of items

• All of the above