Working with punctuation

A rhetorical questions needs a _________________

• full stop

• exclamation mark

• speech marks

• question marks

What type of sentence is this? The dog is dead.

• Complex

• Fragment

• simple

• minor

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

Three dots... are a punctuation called?

• Parenthesis

• Caesura

• em-dash

• Ellipsis

Tags

CCSS.L.8.2A

CCSS.L.8.2B

What sentence type is this? Since you cannot be here.

• Fragment

• Simple

• Complex

• Phrase

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

What is the official name for: ( )

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

What is the purpose of an exclamation mark?

• To add drama

• To suggest excitement

• To shout

• To capture the reader's attention

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B

What is this punctuation mark called? ;

• Colon

• Semi-colon

• Apostrophe

• Comma

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Where should the apostrophe be? Which statement below is correct...

• The cats bowl was empty.

• The cats' bowl was empty.

• The cat's bowl was empty.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.2D

Where should the apostrophe be?

• The bus driver took the childrens' tickets.

• The bus driver took the childrens tickets.

• The bus driver took the children's tickets.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.2D

Colloquial language is formal. True or False

• True

• False