This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Quiz 18 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In a sentence, we call the one doing the action? A) Declarative. B) Subject. C) Verb. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject. 2. What do we call the part of the sentence that tells what the subject does or is? A) Verb. B) Noun. C) Subject. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verb. 3. The following sentence needs what punctuation mark? In the book on page 122 it states, Every man was out for himself and it was terrifying. A) Quotation marks. B) Apostrophe. C) Period. D) Comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quotation marks. 4. Which comma rule is used in the following sentence? The sad, lonely bus riders sat in silence as they traveled through the city. A) #5-Introductory Elements. B) #2-Separating Adjectives. C) #6-Conventional Situations. D) #1-Items in a Series. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) #2-Separating Adjectives. 5. Which letter should be capitalized?"Submit this report by tuesday." A) Report. B) By. C) Submit. D) Tuesday. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tuesday. 6. Use these between items in a series if the items already contain commas A) Periods. B) Apostrophe. C) Slashes. D) Semicolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Semicolon. 7. EXERCISE 3:ApostrophesAdd apostrophes where needed. Some sentences may be correct as written.A caterpillars first meal is its own eggshell. A) A caterpillars first meal is it's own eggshell. B) A caterpillar's first meal is its own eggshell. C) A caterpillars' first meal is its own eggshell. D) Correct as written. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A caterpillar's first meal is its own eggshell. 8. Find the word with the apostrophe. Is it a contraction or Possessive?DAD'S tools are in his shed. A) Contraction. B) Possessive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Possessive. 9. I will work on my math facts A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 10. What's the subject in the following sentence? Judith, sit with me in the cafeteria today during the assembly. A) You. B) Me. C) Assembly. D) Judith. E) Cafeteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You. 11. Check punctuation!Flintly who is the weirdest kid on the block collects navel lint. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 12. True, or false?There are situations where either a semicolon, or a colon could be correctly used to link two independent clauses A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Sofia is writing a letter to her friends Owen and Ellie. She is confused about when to use a comma in her letter. Can you help her? A) To separate vowels in a word in the letter. B) To indicate the end of a sentence in the letter. C) To separate independent clauses in a compound sentence. D) To emphasize a point in the letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To separate independent clauses in a compound sentence. 14. Select the correct use of an apostrophe and/or possessive/plural word in the following sentence:We all went to the ..... indoor soccer game. A) Girls. B) Girls'. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Girls'. 15. This is so cool ..... A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) !. 16. Which of these punctuation marks is used when writing a sentence that is asking a question? A) . B) ''. C) . D) ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ?. 17. Bundle up (that means jacket, muffler, ski mask, and heavy socks) for the outing at Winter Haven. A) All punctuation is correct. B) Change parentheses to dashes. C) Change parentheses to colons. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Change parentheses to dashes. 18. What is the missing punctuation?Can we go to watch that new movie in the cinema A) . B) !. C) ,. D) ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ?. 19. Choose the correct punctuation mark for the sentence.She went for a walk in the woods A) . B) ". C) ?. D) !. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 20. The following TV shows are most popular this fall: "Big Bang Theory" and "The Walking Dead." A) Correctly punctuated. B) Incorrectly punctuated. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correctly punctuated. 21. Determine if the sentence is correctly punctuated or not.In our car, we can take Kevin, Gavin, and Mason, and Isaiah can take Austin and Evan. A) Correct. B) Not correct. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not correct. 22. Where does the semicolon go in this sentence? "We had too many fumbles we lost the game." A) In between "lost" and "the". B) In between "fumbles" and "we". C) Before "We". D) After "game". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In between "fumbles" and "we". 23. I write with clarity and expression.Write is a ..... A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Noun. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb. 24. Is this date written correctly? January 8, 1642. A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 25. James, John and I should not be blamed for our errors in writing. A) NO CHANGE. B) James John and I should not. C) James, John, and I should not. D) James, John, and I, should not. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James, John, and I should not. 26. Does anyone have Samantha's new phone number, I think she moved last week? A) Fragment. B) Run-on. C) Complete Sentence. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Run-on. 27. Is this sentence correct? "We eat pizza on Fridays, and we get a big one." A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 28. The girl ..... s father sat in a corner. A) ?. B) ''. C) . D) '. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) '. 29. Are we going to the movies or going bowling instead?Which of the following fixes the grammar problem? A) Movies,. B) Or,. C) There isn't a problem. D) Bowling,. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There isn't a problem. 30. NASA would gather data; and the Space Shuttle would work on returning spaceships intact from space journeys. A) No change. B) Gather data. And the. C) Gather data, and the. D) Gather data, the. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gather data, and the. ← 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