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PUNCTUATION colons, dashes, hyphens, and parentheses.

Authored by Anne McNichol

English

9th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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PUNCTUATION colons, dashes, hyphens, and parentheses.
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Use _______ to separate items in a series that is complicated by internal

commas

semicolon

dashes

parentheses

hyphens

Answer explanation

have lived in Jacksonville, Florida; Atlantic Beach, Florida; Orono, Maine; San Jose,

California; Ben Lomond, California; and Los Angeles, California.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Use a ________ to signal a dramatic shift in tone or thought.

hyphen

dash

parentheses

comma

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

used to join two or more words together that are being used to describe a noun.

dash

hyphen

parentheses

colon

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

used to join two or more words together that are being used to describe a noun.

COLONS

dashes

parenthesis

semicolons

hyphens

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Introduce a list

COLONS

dashes

parentheses

semicolons

hyphens

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Used between two complete sentences that are related.

colon

semicolon

hypen

dash

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

are used to set off information that is useful but not essential to the meaning of

the sentence.

dashes

hyphens

parentheses

colons

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