This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Quiz 17 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. PUNCTUATION ASSESSMENT #3 A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 2. What do you call two or more sentences incorrectly joined together as one? A) Fragment. B) Imperative. C) Run-on Sentence. D) Semicolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Run-on Sentence. 3. The answer is 27 because he found 5 more toys ..... A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 4. Use to indicate titles of magazines A) Italics. B) Quotation Marks. C) Apostrophe. D) Semicolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italics. 5. Always use commas to separate items in a ..... A) Series or a list. B) Exclamatory sentence. C) Story. D) Independent clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Series or a list. 6. 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) Is. C) Was. D) Were. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is. 7. 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. 8. What type of sentence is the following? Have you ever been to Hawaii? A) Declarative. B) Imperative. C) Interrogative. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interrogative. 9. The following streets are flooded Monroe, Congress, and Hopkins Rd. A) Flooded,. B) Flooded;. C) Flooded:. D) Flooded. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flooded:. 10. What two words are used to make the contraction aren't? A) Are not. B) Arent. C) Are is. D) Are were. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are not. 11. 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,. 12. The show begins at 7:30 make sure you're there before 7:15. A) No Change. B) 7:30, make. C) 7:30. Make. D) 7:30, nor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7:30. Make. 13. 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. 14. Every sentence ends with ..... A) Punctuation. B) Period. C) Exclamation point. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Punctuation. 15. Mori was excited for the new semester ** ..... ; ..... ** however, she knew she had to stay focused. A) ;. B) :. C) '. D) -. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ;. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. "Very" is commonly used A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adverb. 21. The soccer violence could have been prevented ..... I always thought so by crowd control. A) NO CHANGE. 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) The soccer violence could have been prevented I always thought so:by crowd control. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The soccer violence could have been prevented I always thought so by crowd control. 22. PUNCTUATION ASSESSMENT #12 A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 23. 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. 24. Neither Jed nor Ted had homework but they stayed up late anyway.Which of the following fixes the grammar problem? A) There isn't a problem. B) Nor,. C) Neither,. D) Homework,. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homework,. 25. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesPunctuation Quiz 1Punctuation Quiz 2Punctuation Quiz 3Punctuation Quiz 4Punctuation Quiz 5Punctuation Quiz 6Punctuation Quiz 7Punctuation Quiz 8Punctuation Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books