Adding Punctuation to Dialogue

Adding Punctuation to Dialogue

1st - 12th Grade

9 Qs

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Adding Punctuation to Dialogue

Adding Punctuation to Dialogue

Assessment

Quiz

English

1st - 12th Grade

Hard

Created by

Margaret Anderson

FREE Resource

9 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Do you start a new paragraph when a new person is talking?
Yes
No
Maybe
That is the question...?

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Where do you put the comma before the dialogue?
After the quotation marks
Before the dialogue tag
You don't put commas before dialogue EVER
After the dialogue tag

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which one is correct?
Allie, said "I love to talk!"
"Allie said, I love to talk!"
Allie said, "I love to talk!"
Allie said "I love to talk!"

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which one is NOT correct?
"What if the world exploded?" Joe asked.
Joe asked, "What if the world exploded?"
"What if the world exploded" Joe questioned
"WHAT IF THE WORLD EXPLODED?"

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Quotation marks go around the...
 Dialogue tag
Dialogue 
Whole sentence
(All of the Above)

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When directly quoting someone, how do you punctuate the dialogue IN the dialogue?
You punctuate it like normal
You ignore grammar completely
You put double quotation marks
You put quotation marks inside the  quotation marks

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What should be fixed in this sentence?--
"Well, Eduardo said "I want to create a dictatorship,"" replied Fernando.
Change the dialogue tag 
Change the quotation marks that are inside to an ' ,instead
Remove the comma after Well
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8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Heather stated that potatoes are actually alien creatures from Neptune.
How do you turn this sentence into dialogue?
Put quotation marks around the dialogue and delete the word "that"
Put a comma after "stated", put quotation marks after the inserted comma and the period at the end
Put quotation marks around the whole sentence.
Put quotation marks around the entire sentence

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Why would someone even care to punctuate dialogue?
To add clarity to what someone is saying
To add more emphasis
To figure out what the person is actually saying
All of the above