This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Use to indicate titles of books A) Ellipses. B) Quotation Marks. C) Parentheses. D) Italics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Italics. 2. Among her favorite treats are baby carrots, apples chunks, and hot dog slices. A) Treats would be the following:. B) NO CHANGE. C) Treats, them being;. D) Treats are;. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO CHANGE. 3. Almost overnight the land too turns greenish. One week, seeds are sown in bare patches behind the villagers' houses. A) Greenish one. B) NO CHANGE. C) Greenish (one. D) Greenish, one. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO CHANGE. 4. Use a comma to set off words that interrupt the flow of thought in a sentence. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. When do we use capital letters? A) Start of every sentence. B) At the end of every sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Start of every sentence. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. Which word names the simple predicate:Three fuzzy ducklings swam in the pond. A) In. B) Fuzzy. C) Pond. D) Swam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Swam. 9. Choose the sentence with the correct use of commas. A) My favorite colors are blue, green and, red. B) My favorite colors are blue, green, and red. C) My favorite colors are, blue, green, and red. D) My favorite colors are blue green, and red. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My favorite colors are blue, green, and red. 10. 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. 11. A sentence with a lot of emotion is what type of sentence? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Exclamatory. D) Imperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exclamatory. 12. What type of sentence is "Please close the door." ? A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Exclamatory. D) Imperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imperative. 13. 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 !. 14. Some people work best in the mornings ..... others do better in the evenings. A) ,. B) ;. C) ?. D) :. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ;. 15. 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) NO CHANGE. C) Large supermarkets frighten me, however I overcome my fear; because. D) Large supermarkets frighten me; however, I overcome my fear because. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Large supermarkets frighten me; however, I overcome my fear because. 16. 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. 17. The boy shouted, "I want some ice cream ..... A) !. B) ?. C) . D) ,. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) !. 18. 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. 19. Which one of these homonym mean a direction? A) Right. B) Wrieght. C) Write. D) Rieght. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right. 20. A question mark (?) is for A) Telling. B) Asking. C) Yelling. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asking. 21. 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) NO CHANGE. B) Booksellers' shop. C) Bookseller's shop. D) Book sellers shop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bookseller's shop. 22. How many days until Christmas? A) How many days until Christmas. B) How many days until Christmas?. C) How many Days until Christmas?. D) Correct as is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How many days until Christmas?. 23. What is the direct object of this sentence:The students found the exam to be difficult A) Found. B) The exam. C) The students. D) To be difficult. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The exam. 24. 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. 25. 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'. 26. 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. 27. 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. 28. 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. 29. 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. 30. Oh my god ..... That is some great news ..... A) ? and . B) . and !. C) ! and !. D) . and . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ! and !. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesPunctuation Quiz 1Punctuation Quiz 2Punctuation Quiz 4Punctuation Quiz 5Punctuation Quiz 6Punctuation Quiz 7Punctuation Quiz 8Punctuation Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books