This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Quiz 44 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is the point ..... if you do poorly in 7th grade, how will you do in 8th? A) ,. B) :. C) ;. D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) :. 2. What is the subject of the following sentence?There are so many cars on the beltway. A) Cars. B) There. C) Beltway. D) Are. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There. 3. How should this sentence be corrected? The computer has a virus and it will need to be reformatted A) Computer,. B) Virus,. C) Need,. D) And,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Virus,. 4. Where do commas belong in the following sentence?Our new kittens who could not find their mother meowed loudly. A) Our new kittens, who could not find their mother, meowed loudly. B) Our new kittens who could not find their mother, meowed loudly. C) Our new kittens, who could not find their mother meowed loudly. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Our new kittens, who could not find their mother, meowed loudly. 5. Pick the sentence with the possessive apostrophe in the correct place.The ..... day seems never ending. A) Farmers's. B) Farmer's. C) Farmers'. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farmer's. 6. Choose the correct verb for this sentence:The boys ..... math is easy. A) Thinks. B) Think. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Think. 7. Yes, I was going to go to the mall to buy new air fresheners for my classroom last weekend, but I read a book instead. A) Correct. B) Not Correct. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 8. Select the correct use of an apostrophe and/or possessive/plural word in the following sentence:When ..... home, we celebrate by getting pizza. A) Their. B) They're. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They're. 9. Which would correct the song title?Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana played on the radio. A) Italics. B) Quotation marks. C) Capitalization. D) Correct as is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quotation marks. 10. Does The need to be capitalized?During The Dark Ages, many people died. A) No, not part of the name. B) Yes, part of the name. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, not part of the name. 11. It rained heavily; during the afternoon we managed to have our picnic anyway. A) NO CHANGE. B) Heavily during the afternoon we managed; to. C) Heavily during the afternoon; we managed to. D) Heavily during the afternoon; we managed, to. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heavily during the afternoon; we managed to. 12. What is the correct formula for a compound-complex sentence? A) IC DC IC. B) IC, DC; IC. C) IC; IC, DC. D) IC, DC, IC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) IC; IC, DC. 13. Maria looked for the book in the library but didn't find it.Which answer fixes the problem? A) There isn't a problem. B) Maria,. C) Library,. D) Book,. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There isn't a problem. 14. Which of the following uses correct punctuation? A) Look out below:. B) Please don't go,. C) I won tickets to the concert?. D) Watch out for the mud puddle!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Watch out for the mud puddle!. 15. This message, though, was clearly too dangerous a crew came to sandblast the graffiti from the sidewalk the very next day. A) NO CHANGE. B) Dangerous but a. C) Dangerous:a. D) Dangerous, a. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dangerous:a. 16. What kind of ending punctuation does the following sentence need:What is your favorite color A) ?. B) !. C) ''. D) >. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ?. 17. Choose all the words that need to be capitalized in the following sentence:We will take grandpa to a horse show. A) Will. B) Take. C) Grandpa. D) Show. E) Horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grandpa. 18. What kind of sentence opener is this?Although Harold wasn't a blood relative, the English wanted him to be king. A) #5-wwwasiabecause. B) #2-preposition. C) #1-subject. D) #4-ing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) #5-wwwasiabecause. 19. Well done you A) ?. B) !. C) . D) ,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) !. 20. Our stomachs might burst! We shouldn't have eaten so many fried cheese sticks. A) Shouldn't contains a correct apostrophe. B) The apostrophe must come between the d and n, where the space was omitted:should'nt. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shouldn't contains a correct apostrophe. 21. Where does the comma go?My sister was sad so I told her a joke. A) Sister,. B) Her,. C) Sad,. D) So,. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sad,. 22. Which punctuation mark is used to indicate a pause before a conjunction in a compound sentence? A) Comma. B) Semicolon. C) Colon. D) Dash. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma. 23. Let's go out for dinner, shall we ..... A) . B) ,. C) !. D) ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ?. 24. Where does the colon best fit in the following sentence:Caution Proceed at your own risk. A) Caution:. B) Proceed:. C) Your:. D) Own:. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caution:. 25. Choose the correct punctuation mark for the sentence.I had fish for dinner last night A) ?. B) . C) !. D) :. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) . ← 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