Bell Ringer #4 Quiz

1. Choose the correctly written sentence.

• Sadly, I am embarassed to report that I bare the soul responsibility for my dodgeball team's loss on Friday night
• Sadly, I am embarrassed to report that I bare the soul responsibility for my dodgeball teams loss on Friday night.
• Sadly I am embarassed to report that I bare the soul responsibility for my dodgeball teams loss on Friday night.
• Sadly, I am embarrassed to report that I bear the sole responsibility for my dodgeball team's loss on Friday night.

2. Choose the correctly written sentence.

• When Mom shook out the kitchen rug, dog hair, bread crumbs, coffee grounds, and spaghetti noodles flew threw the air.
• When Mom shook out the kitchen rug, dog hair, bread crumbs, coffee grounds and spaghetti noodles flew through the air.
• When Mom shook out the kitchen rug: dog hair, bread crumbs, coffee grounds, and spaghetti noodles flew threw the air.
• When Mom shook out the kitchen rug, dog hair, bread crumbs, coffee grounds, and spaghetti noodles flew through the air.

3. Choose the correctly written sentence.

• When Jake jammed the photocopier for the 8th time, Sharon the administrative assistant picked up a industrial-sized stapler and threatened to throw it at this head.
• When Jake jammed the photocopier for the 8th time, Sharon, the administrative assistant, picked up an industrial sized stapler and threatened to throw it at this head.
• When Jake jammed the photocopier for the eighth time, Sharon, the administrative, assistant, picked up a industrial sized stapler and threatened to throw it at this head.
• When Jake jammed the photocopier for the eighth time, Sharon, the administrative assistant, picked up an industrial-sized stapler and threatened to throw it at this head.

4. Choose the correctly written sentence.

• Because her hands were still slipery from the dishwater, Rachel droped the water melon which bursted on the floor, creating an explosion of pulp and seeds.
• Because her hands were still slippery from the dishwater, Rachel dropped the watermelon, which burst on the floor, creating an explosion of pulp and seeds.
• Because her hands were still slippery from the dish water, Rachel droped the wattermellon which bursted on the floor, creating an explosion of pulp and seeds.
• Because her hands were still slippery from the dishwater, Rachel droped the watermellon which burst on the floor, creating an explosion of pulp and seeds.

5. Use a _______ after an introductory word, introductory prepositional phrase, or an introductory clause.

• semi-colon
• comma

6. Which of the following sentences has uniform tense agreement?

• When I went to the coffee house, I buy two cookies.
• When I go shopping, I always grab a shopping cart.
• When my dog goes for a walk, I forgot to grab a handful of doggy waste bags.
• When the alarm goes off, I remembered my plan to leave early.

7. Which of the following sentences uses the Oxford comma correctly?

• When I stop for clothes, I like to go to stores where I already know my size.
• Bringing cheese meat and crackers was on my list for the party.
• I love to go shopping, but I don't like hours of endlessly looking for one specific, hard-to-find item.
• Arlo learned to sit, place, and leave it at puppy obedience school.

8. Use a ____________________ to connect two independent clauses.

• introductory clause
• an apostrophe
• a comma
• a semicolon

9. Which of the following connects two independent clauses correctly?

• I can't eat pepperoni pizza, and am lactose intolerant.
• I can't eat pepperoni pizza and I am lactose intolerant.
• I can't eat pepperoni pizza due to being lactose intolerant.
• I can't eat pepperoni pizza; I am lactose intolerant.

10. Which of the following sentences is an example of hyperbole?

• Don't make me ask you a second time to pick up your socks off of the bathroom floor.
• Do you know how to follow directions?
• Can you repeat the directions back to me?
• I have told you a million times to pick up your socks off of the bathroom floor.