This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Quiz 15 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I am going to; feed my cats, drink some water, and fry some lightly-fried fish fillets. A) Correct. B) Not Correct. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not Correct. 2. What type of sentence is this?Brush your teeth. A) Exclamatory. B) Declarative. C) Interrogative. D) Imperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imperative. 3. Is the colon used correctly in the following sentence? "Here are the reasons he cited:lack of time, lack of interest, and lack of information." A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 4. What is the subject of this sentence?Sarah and I drove to the mall to see Tina. A) Sarah. B) I. C) Tina. D) Sarah and I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sarah and I. 5. Choose which sentences has correct capitalization. A) I want to go to the Grand canyon in december. B) I want to go to the Grand Canyon in December. C) I want to go to the grand canyon in december. D) I want to go to the grand canyon in December. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I want to go to the Grand Canyon in December. 6. A study published in Nature Geoscience explains how earthquakes form large gold nuggets in quartz. Apparently, the formation of gold in quartz isn't rare at all according to ..... A) Lead author:Chris Voisey. B) Lead author Chris Voisey. C) Lead author, Chris Voisey. D) Lead author; Chris Voisey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lead author Chris Voisey. 7. Newspaper Title:The New York Times A) The New York Times. B) "The New York Times". C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The New York Times. 8. What type of sentence is this?I caught a white butterfly. A) Exclamatory. B) Imperative. C) Declarative. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Declarative. 9. Choose the correct punctuation mark for the sentence.Where is my pencil A) ''. B) ?. C) . D) !. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ?. 10. Extending from the tail is a peacocklike fan of feathers, other feathers form fringes under the arms. A) Of feathers-other feathers-. B) Of feathers; other feathers. C) Of feathers other feathers. D) NO CHANGE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of feathers; other feathers. 11. Identify the sentence that uses quotation marks correctly. A) "Did you finish your homework?" asked the teacher. B) Did you finish your homework? asked the teacher.". C) "Did you finish your homework? asked the teacher. D) Did you finish your homework?" asked the teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Did you finish your homework?" asked the teacher. 12. Let's pick from the garden A) ,. B) !. C) ?. D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) . 13. Which of the following sentences correctly shows possession using an apostrophe?a) The cats toys are missing.b) The cat's toys are missing.c) The cats' toys are missing. A) The cats toy's are missing. B) The cat toys are missing. C) The cat's toys are missing. D) The cats toys are missing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cat's toys are missing. 14. I love dogs, but I don't like cats. A) I love dogs, but i don't like Cats. B) I LOVE Dogs but i dont like CATS. C) Correct as is. D) I love dogs but i dont like cats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Correct as is. 15. However, as Chet Halperin notes, the engagement announcement is "a festive preview to your marriage." A) NO CHANGE. B) Is, "festive. C) Is: "a festive. D) Are "a festivity and. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. 16. A sentence that uses expresses strong emotions uses a what kind of punctuation mark? A) . B) <. C) !. D) ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) !. 17. The back layer of the iris of a hazel eye has the same amount of melanin as the brown eye but the front layer has much less. A) Eye, but. B) Eye:but. C) NO CHANGE. D) Eye ; but. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eye, but. 18. What is the correct contraction for this set of words:had not A) Had'd. B) Hasn't. C) Has. D) Hadn't. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hadn't. 19. Can I go to the party (to, too, two)? A) To. B) Too. C) Two. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Too. 20. Before arriving at the station, the old train (someone said it was a relic of frontier days) caught fire. A) All punctuation is correct. B) Replace parentheses with colons. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All punctuation is correct. 21. A contraction shortens words by replacing one or more letters with an ..... A) Comma,. B) Apostrophe '. C) Colon:. D) Semicolon:. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe '. 22. What can you use after a semicolon? A) Period. B) Conjuntion. C) Pronoun. D) Conjunctive adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conjunctive adverb. 23. Miss Easterly's students are the best because they always listen to everything she says. A) Correctly punctuated. B) Incorrectly punctuated. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correctly punctuated. 24. We spent more time on our science fair project than Karen and Denny did, but everyone is ignoring our work to view their's instead! A) Their's contains a correct apostrophe. B) Theirs should have the apostrophe after the s:theirs'. C) Theirs should not have an apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theirs should not have an apostrophe. 25. I attend hewlett elementary school. A) I Attend Hewlett Elementary school. B) I attend Hewlett Elementary School. C) I attend hewlett elementary school. D) I attend hewlett elementary School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I attend Hewlett Elementary School. 26. Which symbol is a hyphen? A) -. B) ( ). C) :. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -. 27. What's wrong with this sentence?'I really like to eat pizza and hamburgers' A) Nothing. B) It needs a comma. C) There is an 'and'. D) There is no full stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There is no full stop. 28. A period (.) is for A) Telling. B) Asking. C) Yelling. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telling. 29. What is missing in this sentence?The students said, That I understand! A) Quotation marks '' ''. B) Exclamation point !. C) Comma,. D) Period . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quotation marks '' ''. 30. What is an imperative sentence? A) Asks a question. B) Tells a statement. C) Gives a command. D) Expresses strong feeling. 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