This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Quiz 14 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Use to indicate the title of poems A) Ellipses. B) Semicolon. C) Quotation Marks. D) Italics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quotation Marks. 2. It's raining ..... can't play baseball. A) Outside, we. B) Outside so we. C) Outside; we. D) Outside. so we. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outside; we. 3. Our daughter, Clare recently celebrated her second birthday. A) Our daughter Clare. Recently. B) NO CHANGE. C) Our daughter Clare recently. D) Our daughter Clare, recently. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Our daughter Clare recently. 4. What does the ellipsis in the following sentence indicate? "Chopin ..... was a gifted musician." A) Passage of time. B) An unfinished thought. C) Omitted text from a quotation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Omitted text from a quotation. 5. During the process, quartz acts as an insulator while gold behaves like a ..... on the voltage produced by the quartz, the gold attracts more gold particles from hydrothermal liquid in the earth. A) Conductor. Drawing. B) Conductor, drawing. C) Conductor drawing. D) Conductor; and drawing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conductor. Drawing. 6. Jaylah's backpack is heavier than usual because **it's** full of books. What is the correct punctuation mark used in this sentence? A) '. B) :. C) ;. D) -. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) '. 7. PUNCTUATION ASSESSMENT #3 A) B. B) A. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B. 8. What do you call two or more sentences incorrectly joined together as one? A) Run-on Sentence. B) Imperative. C) Fragment. D) Semicolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Run-on Sentence. 9. The answer is 27 because he found 5 more toys ..... A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 10. Use to indicate titles of magazines A) Apostrophe. B) Quotation Marks. C) Italics. D) Semicolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italics. 11. Always use commas to separate items in a ..... A) Story. B) Series or a list. C) Exclamatory sentence. D) Independent clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Series or a list. 12. Choose the correct present tense verb that fills in the blank:The players nor the coach ..... happy with the result of last week's game. A) Was. B) Is. C) Are. D) Were. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is. 13. Where does a semicolon belong? A) Between closely related independent clauses. B) Sometimes instead of using a comma. C) Avoid confusion when you have complicated lists of items. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 14. What type of sentence is the following? Have you ever been to Hawaii? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Exclamatory. D) Imperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interrogative. 15. The following streets are flooded Monroe, Congress, and Hopkins Rd. A) Flooded,. B) Flooded;. C) Flooded. D) Flooded:. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flooded:. 16. What two words are used to make the contraction aren't? A) Are were. B) Are is. C) Arent. D) Are not. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are not. 17. I love the game of basketball, however, I don't play it myself. A) NO CHANGE. B) Basketball:however,. C) Basketball however,. D) Basketball; however,. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Basketball; however,. 18. The show begins at 7:30 make sure you're there before 7:15. A) 7:30, nor. B) 7:30. Make. C) No Change. D) 7:30, make. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7:30. Make. 19. They couldn't make it to the peak and back; before dark they decided to camp for the night. A) NO CHANGE. B) They couldn't make it to the peak; and back before dark, they decided to. C) They couldn't make it; to the peak and back before dark, they decided to. D) They couldn't make it to the peak and back before dark; they decided to. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They couldn't make it to the peak and back before dark; they decided to. 20. Every sentence ends with ..... A) Period. B) Verb. C) Punctuation. D) Exclamation point. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Punctuation. 21. Mori was excited for the new semester ** ..... ; ..... ** however, she knew she had to stay focused. A) '. B) -. C) :. D) ;. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ;. 22. The sentence below is punctuated correctly:There are thirty two boys on the basketball team. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Use a colon to introduce a list of items that ends a sentence. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. A simple subject is A) A noun or pronoun. B) A verb. C) Both a noun and a verb. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A noun or pronoun. 25. The sentence below is punctuated correctly:Book titles should be in italics. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 26. "Very" is commonly used A) Noun. B) Adverb. C) Adjective. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adverb. 27. The soccer violence could have been prevented ..... I always thought so by crowd control. A) The soccer violence could have been prevented I always thought so by crowd control. B) The soccer violence could have been prevented I always thought so:by crowd control. C) The soccer violence could have been prevented, I always thought so by crowd control. D) NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The soccer violence could have been prevented I always thought so by crowd control. 28. PUNCTUATION ASSESSMENT #12 A) B. B) A. C) D. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B. 29. Short stories and poems should always be placed in quotation marks. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. Neither Jed nor Ted had homework but they stayed up late anyway.Which of the following fixes the grammar problem? A) There isn't a problem. B) Homework,. C) Nor,. D) Neither,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homework,. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesPunctuation Quiz 1Punctuation Quiz 2Punctuation Quiz 3Punctuation Quiz 4Punctuation Quiz 5Punctuation Quiz 6Punctuation Quiz 7Punctuation Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books