This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the error in the sentence: "He was tired, he went to bed early." A) Run-on sentence. B) No error. C) Fragment. D) Comma splice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comma splice. 2. Which of the following sentences demonstrates correct capitalization? A) She went to paris last summer. B) She went to Paris last summer. C) She went to Paris last summer. D) She went to paris last summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She went to Paris last summer. 3. Is the following word Singular or Plural? Michael A) Singular. B) Plural. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Singular. 4. Choose the correct punctuation for the blank.For the picnic we brought the following ..... sandwiches, chips, and fruit salad. A) Colon. B) Semicolon. C) Hyphen. D) Comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colon. 5. I am a BOLD punctuation mark, meant to be used sparingly. I'll cut you off in the middle of a thought if you're not careful. Who am I? A) Dash. B) Parentheses. C) Slash. D) Hyphen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dash. 6. When all of the goats' on the farm bleat for food, its cute. A) NO CHANGE. B) Its'. C) It's. D) You're. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's. 7. When we write we A) Use words to paint a picture. B) Make a sound in the reader's head. C) Translate sounds into meaning. D) Use images to create sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make a sound in the reader's head. 8. Do not capitalize the name of a season unless it is part of a proper name. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 9. The sentence below is punctuated correctly:Tate's football team was in 1st place in the NCAA league. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. Is the following sentence correct?The girls went shopping, and they bought a lot of things. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 11. Put the bread in the oven, and set the timer for 30 minutes. A) Fragment. B) Run-on. C) Complete Sentence. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complete Sentence. 12. It is a challenge or obstacle in the story, that needs to be solved. A) Problem. B) Events. C) Setting. D) Solution. E) Characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Problem. 13. What's wrong with this sentence?After our second week of humanities, i feel more comfortable in grade 8. A) I should be capitalized. B) No comma needed. C) There should be a period after humanities. D) Humanities should be capitalized. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I should be capitalized. 14. Use to indicate the title of poems A) Italics. B) Ellipses. C) Quotation Marks. D) Semicolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quotation Marks. 15. 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. 16. Our daughter, Clare recently celebrated her second birthday. A) NO CHANGE. B) Our daughter Clare, recently. C) Our daughter Clare recently. D) Our daughter Clare. Recently. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Our daughter Clare recently. 17. 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. 18. 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) '. 19. PUNCTUATION ASSESSMENT #3 A) B. B) D. C) A. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B. 20. What do you call two or more sentences incorrectly joined together as one? A) Imperative. B) Semicolon. C) Fragment. D) Run-on Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Run-on Sentence. 21. The answer is 27 because he found 5 more toys ..... A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 22. Use to indicate titles of magazines A) Italics. B) Semicolon. C) Apostrophe. D) Quotation Marks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italics. 23. Always use commas to separate items in a ..... A) Exclamatory sentence. B) Story. C) Independent clause. D) Series or a list. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Series or a list. 24. 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) Are. B) Were. C) Was. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is. 25. 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. 26. What type of sentence is the following? Have you ever been to Hawaii? A) Imperative. B) Interrogative. C) Declarative. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interrogative. 27. The following streets are flooded Monroe, Congress, and Hopkins Rd. A) Flooded;. B) Flooded. C) Flooded:. D) Flooded,. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flooded:. 28. What two words are used to make the contraction aren't? A) Are is. B) Are were. C) Are not. D) Arent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are not. 29. 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,. 30. The show begins at 7:30 make sure you're there before 7:15. A) 7:30, make. B) 7:30, nor. C) No Change. D) 7:30. Make. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7:30. Make. 31. 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. 32. Every sentence ends with ..... A) Punctuation. B) Verb. C) Exclamation point. D) Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Punctuation. 33. Mori was excited for the new semester ** ..... ; ..... ** however, she knew she had to stay focused. A) :. B) '. C) -. D) ;. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ;. 34. 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. 35. 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. 36. 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. 37. 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. 38. "Very" is commonly used A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Adverb. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adverb. 39. 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. 40. PUNCTUATION ASSESSMENT #12 A) A. B) B. C) D. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 41. 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. 42. Neither Jed nor Ted had homework but they stayed up late anyway.Which of the following fixes the grammar problem? A) Nor,. B) Neither,. C) There isn't a problem. D) Homework,. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homework,. 43. 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. 44. What type of sentence is this?Brush your teeth. A) Declarative. B) Imperative. C) Interrogative. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imperative. 45. 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. 46. 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. 47. 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. 48. 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: A) Lead author Chris Voisey. 49. 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. 50. What type of sentence is this?I caught a white butterfly. A) Declarative. B) Exclamatory. C) Imperative. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declarative. 51. Choose the correct punctuation mark for the sentence.Where is my pencil A) ?. B) ''. C) . D) !. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ?. 52. Extending from the tail is a peacocklike fan of feathers, other feathers form fringes under the arms. A) NO CHANGE. B) Of feathers other feathers. C) Of feathers; other feathers. D) Of feathers-other feathers-. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of feathers; other feathers. 53. 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: B) "Did you finish your homework?" asked the teacher. 54. Let's pick from the garden A) ,. B) !. C) ?. D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) . 55. 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 toys are missing. B) The cat toys are missing. C) The cats toy's are missing. D) The cat's toys are missing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The cat's toys are missing. 56. 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. 57. 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. 58. A sentence that uses expresses strong emotions uses a what kind of punctuation mark? A) <. B) . C) !. D) ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) !. 59. 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) NO CHANGE. B) Eye ; but. C) Eye:but. D) Eye, but. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eye, but. 60. What is the correct contraction for this set of words:had not A) Hasn't. B) Has. C) Hadn't. 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