Quiz: Semicolons

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

Scientists have explored almost all the lands on earth they are now exploring the floors of the oceans.

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

Some of the birds at the feeder were picky eaters; the blue jay for instance would eat only sunflower seeds.

• blue jay, for instance,

• Some, of the

• eat only, sunflower seeds

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

St. Augustine, Florida, was the first European settlement in the United States the Spanish founded it in 1565.

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

Mike Powell set a world record for the long jump in 1991 his leap of 29 feet 4 1/2 inches beat Bob Beamon's 1968 record by 2 inches.

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

Some reptiles like a dry climate others prefer a wet climate.

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

We visited New Orleans Louisiana Natchez Mississippi and St. Louis Missouri.

• New Orleans, Louisiana

• St. Louis, Missouri

• Louisiana; Natchez

• Natchez, Mississippi

• Mississippi; and

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

In April 1912, a new, "unsinkable" ocean liner, the Titanic, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic as a result roughly 1,500 persons lost their lives.

• struck an, iceberg

• North Atlantic; as

• a result, roughly

• persons; lost

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

The members of the swim team who won first place medals were Sam Foster, in the fifty-meter freestyle Philip Tucker, in the individual medley and Earl Sinclair, in the one-hundred-meter backstroke.

• freestyle; Philip

• medley; and

• swim team, who

• medley, and

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

Joanna, your team will include Fred Marty and Manny and Josie Sam and Phuong will be on my team.

• Fred Marty, and Manny,

• Fred, Marty, and Manny;

• Josie, Sam, and

• Josie; Sam; and

Add commas and/or semicolons where they are needed in the following sentence.

The kind of tuba that wraps around the player's body is actually called a sousaphone it was named for John Phillop Sousa, a famous band leader who came up with the idea of the shape.