Capitalization and Punctuation

How many words in the following sentence should be capitalized?
That same night, my mother told my father, "i'm taking phillip back to norfolk."

• 2
• 4
• 3
• 1

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CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

What capitalization rule tells us that President should be capitalized in the sentence below?
This November, President Obama will leave the White House, and the American people will elect a new president - I wonder who it will be.

• Proper Nouns
• Proper Adjective
• Title before a name
• The pronoun I

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CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

YMCA, Mrs., Dr., BTW, CMS, and U.S.A need to be capitalized because ...

• They are proper nouns.
• They are abbreviations or initials.
• They are proper adjectives.
• They are the title before a name.

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CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

What makes an English teacher go mad?

• misspellings
• I
• i
• dead words

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CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

   My uncle is fascinated by american and european history, particularly the french and russian revolutions.

• American, European, French, Russian, Revolutions
• American, European, French, Russian
• American, European, French
• American, European

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CCSS.L.3.1A

My mom's kenyan friend has lots of interesting stories about her african childhood in the mombasa suburbs near the indian ocean.

• Kenyan, African
  
• Kenyan, African, Mombasa
• Kenyan, African, Mombasa, Indian
• Kenyan, African, Mombasa, Indian Ocean

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

Which sentence is correct?

• He yelled, "I found an abandoned treehouse!"

• "He yelled, I found an abandoned treehouse."

• He yelled "I found an abandoned treehouse!"

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Which word should have an apostrophe in the sentence?
Sheer white curtains and fresh lilacs added to the rooms simple charm.

• curtain's
• lilac's
• room's
• curtains'

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

I am going home I intend to stay there.

• NO CHANGE
• home; I intend
• home, I intend
• home I intend.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Check punctuation!

"I've fallen in love with a circus clown!" Stacy Mae finally had the nerve to say to her shocked fiance.

• Incorrect

• Correct

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B