Basic Grammar Questions

Which of the following is a comma?

• .

• ,

• :

• ;

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Which of the following is a semicolon?

• ,

• .

• :

• ;

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Which of the following is a colon?

• .

• ,

• ;

• :

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Which piece of punctuation is used to separate items in a list?

• period

• comma

• semicolon

• colon

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2C

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

Which piece of punctuation can be used to combine two independent sentences?

• comma

• colon

• dash

• semicolon

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Which of the following options could be used to combine two independent sentences?

• comma

• FANBOYS conjunction

• nothing

• comma + FANBOYS conjunction

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Which piece of punctuation can be used to set off descriptive phrases in a sentence?

• period

• question mark

• comma

• semicolon

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Which piece of punctuation can be used to add emphasis to a detail that is added at the end of a complete sentence?

• comma

• dash

• period

• parenthesis

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.8.2A

A complete sentence will always have at least one of each of these parts of speech

• verb and adjective

• pronoun and adverb

• preposition and noun

• noun OR pronoun and a verb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

the noun or pronoun that is doing the action of a sentence is called the

• subject

• predicate

• common noun

• verb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I