Punctuation Quiz

Sentence: Many teens use social media to stay connected with friends but constant notifications can become a major distraction.

• Change social media to Social Media

• Change stay to staying

• Insert a comma after friends

• Change become to become

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1C

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Sentence: The school library a quiet haven during busy days, is where I go when I need to focus.

• Change library to liberary

• Insert a comma after library

• Change the comma into a semicolon after days

• Change is to are

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Sentence: While most people were looking at their phones; Malik noticed the new student sitting alone.

• Remove the word While at the beginning of the sentence

• Change were to was

• Change the semicolon to a comma after phones

• No change is necessary

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Sentence: During the last few minutes of class, the teacher reminded us about the homework.

• Remove the comma after class

• Change reminded to reminding

• Change us to we

• No change is necessary

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Sentence: “I promise I studied,” Jordan said, but I still feel nervous about the test.”

• Remove the comma after said

• Change Jordan to jordan

• Insert quotation marks before the word but

• Remove the quotation marks after the word test

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Sentence: The schools cafeteria introduced a new menu item, but it’s already sold out.

• Change schools to school's

• Change introduced to introducing

• Remove the comma after item

• Change it's to its

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Sentence: The new music trend went viral overnight, everyone at school was talking about it the next morning.

• Change viral to virral

• Change the comma into a semicolon after overnight

• Change was to were

• Change it to them

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

Sentence: The students’ laughter echoed down the hallway after the bell rang.

• Change student's to students

• Insert a comma after hallway

• Change rang to ringing

• No change is necessary

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.2B

Sentence: In the middle of lunch the fire alarm suddenly went off.

• Change In to On

• Insert a comma after lunch

• Change suddenly to sudden

• No change is necessary

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

Sentence: TikTok, one of the most popular apps among teens changes trends faster than most people can keep up.

• Change TikTok to tiktok

• Change apps to app's

• Insert a comma after the word teens

• Change trends to trands

Tags

CCSS.L.2.2C