This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Anthropologists-whom prefer to draw their conclusions from the fossils they gather in the field are particularly skeptical of this genetically based hypothesis. A) NO CHANGE. B) Field. They are particularly. C) Field and are particularly. D) Field-are particularly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Field-are particularly. 2. Benji ate his dog food, the brand was Pedigree. A) NO CHANGE. B) Benji ate his dog food; the brand was Pedigree. C) Benji ate his dog food:the brand was Pedigree. D) Benji ate his dog food the brand was Pedigree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benji ate his dog food; the brand was Pedigree. 3. Which word names the simple predicate:Three fuzzy ducklings swam in the pond. A) Pond. B) Swam. C) Fuzzy. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swam. 4. The sentence below is punctuated correctly:Its too bad the student was quarantined. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. A sentence with a lot of emotion is what type of sentence? A) Interrogative. B) Imperative. C) Exclamatory. D) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exclamatory. 6. What type of sentence is "Please close the door." ? A) Interrogative. B) Declarative. C) Imperative. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imperative. 7. Put in the punctuation. Wow Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring sure is colorful ! A) Wow, Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring sure is colorful !. B) Wow, Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring sure is colorful. C) Wow Yellowstone's, Grand Prismatic Spring sure is colorful !. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wow, Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring sure is colorful !. 8. Some people work best in the mornings ..... others do better in the evenings. A) :. B) ,. C) ;. D) ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ;. 9. Large supermarkets frighten me however; I overcome my fear because I can find everything in one place. A) Large supermarkets frighten me; however I overcome my fear because. B) Large supermarkets frighten me; however, I overcome my fear because. C) NO CHANGE. D) Large supermarkets frighten me, however I overcome my fear; because. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Large supermarkets frighten me; however, I overcome my fear because. 10. True or False:A group or family's possession is usually shown like this:The Jones' car A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. The boy shouted, "I want some ice cream ..... A) ,. B) ?. C) !. D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) !. 12. Harold wants to go to Taiwan next summer, so he is saving his money for a plane ticket. A) Keep comma. B) Delete comma. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keep comma. 13. Which one of these homonym mean a direction? A) Write. B) Right. C) Rieght. D) Wrieght. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Right. 14. A question mark (?) is for A) Telling. B) Asking. C) Yelling. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asking. 15. At the time I established myself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good booksellers shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston. A) Bookseller's shop. B) Booksellers' shop. C) NO CHANGE. D) Book sellers shop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bookseller's shop. 16. How many days until Christmas? A) How many Days until Christmas?. B) How many days until Christmas?. C) Correct as is. D) How many days until Christmas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How many days until Christmas?. 17. What is the direct object of this sentence:The students found the exam to be difficult A) To be difficult. B) Found. C) The students. D) The exam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The exam. 18. Is written correctly? A young penguin escaped from the zoo, so zoo officials have launched a search party for it A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 19. Which of the following is correct? I realized that all of the schools policies in NYS had not changed. A) Schools. B) School's. C) Schools'. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Schools'. 20. Enjoys working out at the gym. A) Fragment. B) Run-on. C) Complete sentence. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fragment. 21. Use a period at the end of a declarative sentence and an imperative sentence. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. Which one of these homonym is the the possessive version? A) Thier. B) There. C) They're. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thier. 23. I really dislike writing outlines for reports nevertheless, the highest grade I ever received was for a report that I wrote from an outline. A) All of the punctuation is correct. B) Insert a semicolon after reports. C) Insert a dash after reports. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Insert a semicolon after reports. 24. Poems should be written with ..... A) Italics. B) Quotations. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quotations. 25. Which of the following has punctuation? A) The weeds in my yard are very green, unfortunately, the grass is brown and dying. B) The weeds in my yard are very green; unfortunately the grass is brown and dying. C) The weeds in my yard are very green; unfortunately, the grass is brown and dying. D) The weeds in my yard are very green. Unfortunately the grass is brown and dying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The weeds in my yard are very green, unfortunately, the grass is brown and dying. 26. Use these to separate items in a series A) Period. B) Comma. C) Dash. D) Colon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comma. 27. Select the correct use of an apostrophe and/or possessive/plural word in the following sentence:I lost last ..... yearbook, so this time I'm buying two. A) Years. B) Year's. C) Years'. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Year's. 28. They are the people or animals in the story. A) Characters. B) Problem. C) Setting. D) Solution. E) Events. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characters. 29. Identify whether the following sentence is punctuated correctly or incorrectly:A Raisin in the Sun, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men:these are the novels and plays Mrs. McMillen's students will read this semester. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 30. The most original architect in years is ..... A) She. B) Me. C) Her. D) Him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She. 31. Which answer best describes the red text below?Studying paid off; I got an A. A) Compuddle sentence. B) Compound-complex sentence. C) Compound sentence. D) Complex sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compound sentence. 32. I am used when you want to add extra information. Who am I? A) Ellipsis. B) Hyphen. C) Dash. D) Parentheses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parentheses. 33. The test tubes are fragile. Handle ..... carefully. A) Them. B) They. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Them. 34. What is the definition of a simple sentence? A) One independent clause. B) Two or more independent clauses joined with a comma and a coordinating conjunction. C) One Santa clause. D) One dependent clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One independent clause. 35. What two words are used to make the contractiondon't A) Do not. B) Donot. C) Does not. D) Did not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do not. 36. The tree is very tall old and green. A) Very tall, old and green. B) Very, tall, old, and green. C) Very tall old, and green. D) No change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Very tall, old and green. 37. Is this comma used correctly?Even though I don't like grammar review, I don't mind doing it in a game. A) Yes-a comma after an introductory phrase. B) No comma needed. C) There should be a period where the comma is. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes-a comma after an introductory phrase. 38. I needed a total of fifty ..... six bricks to finish the wall. A) Semicolon. B) Dash. C) Comma. D) Hyphen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyphen. 39. Where does the colon go in the following sentence?Please pick up these items a gallon of milk, a laptop, and a blowtorch. A) After pick. B) After laptop. C) After gallon. D) After items. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) After items. 40. Identify whether the following sentence is punctuated correctly or incorrectly:Mrs. McMillen began talking-she had just shown "The American Dreamer, " about how Fitzgerald lived a chaotically reckless life. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 41. Choose the phrase that is written correctly. A) Mrs bonnie black. B) Mrs. bonnie black. C) Mrs. Bonnie Black. D) Mrs Bonnie Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mrs. Bonnie Black. 42. From then on, her one-and-only sister-in-law Helen would make the cookies herself and share them with her immediate and extended family. A) NO CHANGE. B) Sister in law called Helen,. C) Sister in-law, who was named Helen,. D) Sister-in-law, Helen,. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sister-in-law, Helen,. 43. Identify whether the following sentence is punctuated correctly or incorrectly:We didn't like the new schedule, however, we were helpless to the decisions being made by upper-management. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 44. In which of the following situations should a question mark be used? A) When making a statement. B) When writing a title. C) When asking a direct question. D) When expressing excitement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When asking a direct question. 45. I'm going to ..... my nicest shoes. A) Ware. B) Wear. C) Were. D) Where. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wear. 46. What is the definition of a compound-complex sentence? A) One independent clause. B) Two or more independent clauses joined with a comma and coordinating conjunction. C) One independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. D) Two or more independent clauses joined with a comma and coordinating conjunction along with one or more dependent clauses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two or more independent clauses joined with a comma and coordinating conjunction along with one or more dependent clauses. 47. A sentence must end with ..... A) A comma or a question mark. B) Semicolon. C) A period. D) A period, question mark, or an exclamation point. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A period, question mark, or an exclamation point. 48. My therapist says I am preoccupied with vengeance ..... we'll see about that. A) Yes, this sentence is punctuated correctly. B) No, this sentence is not punctuated correctly. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes, this sentence is punctuated correctly. 49. Is this punctuation right or wrong?Ouch! A) Right. B) Wrong. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right. 50. You use commas around phrases that begin with "that", but not for phrases that begin with "which." A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 51. Having seen the movie already I stayed home. A) Having seen the movie, already, I stayed home. B) Having seen, the movie already, I stayed home. C) No change. D) Having seen the movie already, I stayed home. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Having seen the movie already, I stayed home. 52. Literary critics are often less interested, in any particular book or writer than they are in placing groups of books and writers into facile categories. A) Often less interested. In. B) Often less interested in. C) NO CHANGE. D) Often-less interested-in. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Often less interested in. 53. I was at my house when the rain started to fall early in the morning. I was just about to go inside when I felt the drops fall one after another. Drip. Drip. Drip. The sky was full of dark clouds and light flashing from the clouds. Thunder began soft as thunder. I ran inside just before it started pouring. Where does the story take place? A) A hotel. B) An apartment. C) Space. D) A house. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A house. 54. (Where does the semicolon [;] go?)I have a meeting at 9 in the morning please do not bother me tonight. A) After "meeting". B) After "morning". C) After "bother". D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After "morning". 55. Which word is the simple subject? The shiny blue balloon popped! A) The. B) Shiny. C) Balloon. D) Popped. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Balloon. 56. The sentence below is punctuated correctly:2, 154 fans attended the game. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 57. What is missing in this sentence?I had pears peas and grapes for a snack. A) #. B) ?. C) ,. D) !. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ,. 58. Pick the sentence with the possessive apostrophe in the correct place.This umbrella isn't mine. It's someone ..... A) Elses. B) Else's. C) Elses'. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Else's. 59. Rhonda talked with ..... for hours. A) Us. B) Her and I. C) Jerry and I. D) She and I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Us. 60. Do not spell out numbers that you can write in one or two words. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesPunctuation Quiz 1Punctuation Quiz 3Punctuation Quiz 4Punctuation Quiz 5Punctuation Quiz 6Punctuation Quiz 7Punctuation Quiz 8Punctuation Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books