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Which sentence is correctly punctuated?

• Tangerine is a fruit; it is the name of the book we are reading.
• Tangerines are yellow; but the book is orange.
• Paul dies; but Eric lives.
• none of the above

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What is the past tense form of the verb cry?

• cryed
• cryeed
• cried
• crys

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Which sentence uses commas correctly?

• Jake my black, and white cat, loves to sleep on the couch next to me. 
• Jake, my black and white cat, loves to sleep on the couch next to me. 
• Jake my black and white cat, loves to sleep on the couch next to me. 
• Jake, my black and white cat loves to sleep on the couch next to me. 

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Last summer, my family and I camped by the Mississippi river.

• change family to Family
• change I to me
• change river to River
• The sentence is correct.

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Which sentence uses a comma to seperate the day of the week, month, and year?

• I will be sixteen on Tuesday the 6th of, July 1582.
• Tomorrow will be Sunday, December 2.
• George Washington was born on February, 22 1732.
• September, 11 2001 is a date that will be remembered

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I ... in London five years ago.

• be
• were
• was

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Select the option where the apostrophe placement is most correct:

• He'd rather read last weeks magazine.

• He'd rather read last week's magazine.

• Hed rather read last week's magazine.

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_____ cold today.

• Its

• It's

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Mom surprised us all when she declared, "let's all go get pizza!"

• Delete the quotation marks
• Change let's to Let's
• Remove the comma after declared
• The sentence is correct.

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While Bill _________basketball, his mother ______home.

• was playing,came

• am playing,will come

• plays,comes

• played,came

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