Grammar/Style Quiz

The price was less then 12 dollars.

• Comma splice

• Switch in verb tense

• Using the wrong word

• Missing documentation

The flowers are beautiful, they brighten the room.

• Switch in verb tense

• Comma splice

• Using the wrong word

• Missing documentation

According to one source, it costs almost twice an employee’s salary to recruit and train a replacement.

• Missing documentation

• Run-on sentence

• comma splice

• Using the wrong word

Martin searches for a great horned owl. He took photographs of all the birds he sighted.

• Misspelling

• Shift in verb tense

• Missing documentation

• Sentence fragment

Vladmir Putin is the controversial leader of Russia.

• Missing documentation

• Using the wrong word

• Missing word

• Misspelling

A punctuation mark used to indicate a division in a sentence, as in setting off a word, phrase, or clause, especially when such a division is accompanied by a slight pause or is to be noted in order to give order to the sequential elements of the sentence.

• Comma

• Semi-colon

• em-dash

• colon

A full pause, as is made at the end of a complete sentence; full stop.

• Colon

• Em-dash

• Period

• Semi-colon

A punctuation mark used to interrupt a sentence to add information or show emphasis.

• Comma

• Semi-colon

• Period

• Em-dash

Used to mark a major division in a sentence, to indicate that what follows is an elaboration, summation, implication, etc., of what precedes it

• Semi-colon

• Period

• Colon

• Em-dash

a punctuation mark indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is slightly more pronounced than that indicated by a comma

• Period

• Semi-colon

• Parentheses

• Question mark