Act English Punctuation

The top floor of the Eiffel tower is open to the public__ however, the only way to access it is by elevator.

• no punctuation needed

• :

• ;

• ,

The dog stretched out for an after-lunch snooze in the sun ___ the cat soon joined him.

• :

• ;

• —

Lucas put on a few pounds during the holidays__ so he decided to join a gym.

• ;

• :

• ,

• no punctuation needed

I have finished the main course now I have to make dessert.

• finished;

• now;

• main;

• course;

You will need to have the following items for the trip tent, lantern, matches, and a compass.

• items:

• trip:

Today is Anita’s birthday ___ therefore, we will let her choose the movie.

• :

• ;

• —

I would like to read Shadow and Act__ it is a collection of essays by Ralph Ellison.

• no punctuation needed

• :

• ;

• ,

Through modern geology, humans have a clearer -- though hardly complete -- understanding of the mechanism of magma flow, and can analyze the vibrations of the earth to warn of recent eruptions.

• NO CHANGE

• and, can

• and can,

• and

In general, eruptions seem to occur every several hundred or even thousand years, and many volcanoes seem to be dormant, that is unlikely to erupt soon.

• NO CHANGE

• that is, unlikely to erupt soon

• that is unlikely, to erupt soon

• that, is unlikely to erupt soon

Read the following sentence:

Mondays should be the 3rd day of the weekend; Tuesdays might start feeling like Mondays.



What can be revised within this sentence to make it grammatically correct and sound better?

(PUN-Punctuation/Conventions)

• NO CHANGE

• Take out the semicolon and put a period

• Leave semicolon and add “however” after the semicolon while putting a comma after “however”

• Take out the semicolon and put a comma there instead