Punctuation Dates and Locations

Check all the correct answers.

Commas are used to:

• separate items in a list

• separate parts of an address

• separate the beginning and end of sentences

• separate parts of a date in a sentence

Select the list that is written correctly.

• wash your hands, set the table, sit, eat and enjoy

• wash, your hands, set, the table, sit, eat and enjoy

• wash your hands, set the table, sit, eat, and enjoy

Select the address that is written correctly.

• Sunflower, Drive, Spring Hill, St. George

• Sunflower Drive Spring Hill, St. George

• Sunflower Drive, Spring Hill, St. George

Select the date that is written correctly.

• Thursday 23, August 2020

• Thursday, 23 August, 2020

• Thursday, 23, August, 2020

Choose the sentence where commas are used correctly.

• Father's day was celebrated on Sunday June 21, 2020.

• Father's Day, was celebrated on Sunday, June 21 2020.

• Father's Day was celebrated on Sunday, June 21, 2020.

Choose the sentence where commas are used correctly.

• Mother, woke up bathed, wrote a list, packed her bag and drove, to the store.

• Mother woke up, bathed, wrote a list, packed her bag and drove to the store.

• Mother woke up, bathed wrote a list, packed her bag, and drove to the store.

Choose the sentence where commas are used correctly.

• The party will be held at 5th Avenue, Sandy Lane, St. James.

• The party will be held at 5th, Avenue, Sandy, Lane St. James.

• The party will be held at 5th Avenue Sandy Lane, St. James.

Choose the sentence where commas are used correctly.

• Would you like to visit Paris France, or London England?

• Would you like to visit, Paris, France or London, England?

• Would you like to visit Paris, France or London, England?

Which comma should not be in the sentence below?

On Saturday, July, 5, 2021, we will host a picnic.

• Saturday, July 5

• July, 5

• July 5, 2021

• 2021, we

Which comma should not be in the sentence below?

The athletes have to swim, run 100 metres, ride 5 kilometres, and row for 20 minutes.

• swim, run

• metres, ride

• kilometres, and