Quiz 1

Beginning

 

Decide on how to punctuate the sentence: capitalization, commas, periods, semi-colons, colons, and so on.

1. Select the response from the list that best completes the sentence. 
2. Compare your response to the feedback by clicking the "Check" or the "Check 1-15" button.

Due to the fact that underlining is reserved for links on Internet, italics are used on web pages in place of underlining. However, several electronic environments do not support formatting such as italics and underlining.

Please note the list-menus below cannot display formatting such as italics or underlining. For this reason, underlining will be represented as a line before and after the word(s) instead:  _The Godfather_  (indicates underlining or italics for the enclosed words)

 

1.

  — james James looks forward to the — weekend. weekend; Weekend.

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Capitals Apostrophes

2.

He likes to sit at home with one of his newspaper, — _the mercury news_ _the Mercury news_ _The Mercury News_ .

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Capitals/Lowercase

3.

On — sundays sunday's Sundays , the newspaper is extra large. 

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Capitals Apostrophes

4.

— His his He's he's a big sports fan.

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Capitals Apostrophes

5.

This — weeks week's sports section is about baseball.

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Capitals Apostrophes

6.

It is a — twenty-page-special edition twenty-page, special edition twenty-page special edition about the different teams.

special edition (N) – a better or more detailed publication

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Hyphens

7.

The newpaper lists where each team will hold its — spring Spring training.

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Capitals

8.

James is noting the time — while , while he is reading the article.

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Comma Uses FANBOYS 

9.

The article is called — "Winding Up for the Start"(quotes) Winding Up for the Start(italics) _Winding Up for the Start_(underlined) .

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Quotation Marks Italics Capitals

10.

James likes to watch spring training — because . Because  , because he plays baseball in high school.

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Comma Uses #5 Because 

11.

The Oakland Athletics, also known as the Oakland — As A's , has some strong players this year.

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Apostrophes 4g

12.

They will be — batting running batting, running batting, running, and catching.

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Comma–series

13.

  — James' James's Jame's class schedule won't let him attend.

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Apostrophes 3c

14.

He wants to go — but , but ; but he has to attend his classes.

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Comma Uses Semicolons

15.

  — however However However, However; this is a special opportunity.

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Comma Uses But / But still

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiz 2

Intermediate

 

Decide on how to punctuate the sentence: capitalization, commas, periods, semi-colons, colons, and so on.

1. Select the response from the list that best completes the sentence. 
2. Compare your response to the feedback by clicking the "Check" or the "Check 16-"30" button.

 

16.

James has his — parent's parents' permission to go.

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Apostrophes

17.

His jounalism teacher will allow him to miss class if he writes a paper about — spring training "spring training" _spring training_ .

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 Key terms Unusual sense of a word

18.

James asked her, — 'How long should it be?' "How long should it be?" "How long should it be"? .

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Quotation Marks

19.

"As long as necessary — ," she says, ", she says, "to cover your subject."

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Quotation Marks

20.

  — The next week The next week, he watched two training sessions.

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Comma Uses 10

21.

— When he returned home When he returned home, he began to write about his experience.

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Comma Uses 5

22.

 He decided to write a narrative story — , that is, ; that is, . That is to say, in chronological order.

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For example 9

23.

The players — who were practicing batting , who were practicing batting,  were clocking the speeds of their balls.

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Possessive Pronouns

24.

Hideki Matsui — who is from Japan , who is from Japan, , who is from Japan, was hitting balls at speeds faster than anyone else.

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Comma Uses 13 That vs Which

25.

James began to write his paper, but he couldn't remember how to spell — 'phenomenal' "phenomenal" phenomenal(italics) .

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 Word examples Unusual sense of a word

26.

Does that word have one — m M 'M' "m" m (italics) or two. 

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Letters

27.

He decided to look it up — so , so it would be spelled correctly in his papers.

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Comma Uses 3 So phrases

28.

 He looked it up in   — Merriam-Webster Online (italics) "Merriam-Webster Online" (quotes) 'Merriam-Webster Online' (single quote) .

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Book titles

29.

Watching the training camp was a phenomenal experience — which , which I'll never forget.

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Comma Uses 14 Which-clause

30.

James enjoyed being — rookie writer "rookie writer" 'rookie writer' _rookie writer_ for a day.

rookie (N) — term usually applied to new team players, police officers, or pilots

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Unusual sense of a word