The document is a punctuation practice test with multiple choice questions about various punctuation marks including commas, quotation marks, colons, semicolons, brackets, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes and ellipses. It tests knowledge of the rules and functions of different punctuation in sentence structure and formatting.

1. Punctuation Practice
Mr. S. Martinez
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2. 1. _____________ allows the reader to better understand a written text.
a. Commas
b. Quotation marks
c. Punctuation marks
d. Full stops

3. 1. Punctuation marks separate chunks of meaning and indicate pauses in
written text.
a. True
b. False

4. 1. Which of the following is NOT true about a sentence?
a. They begin with a capital letter.
b. They end with a full stop, an exclamation mark or a question mark.
c. They express a complete thought or idea.
d. They have to have at least one comma.

5. 1. What punctuation mark is used to separate direct speech from the reporting
clause?
a. A full stop
b. A comma
c. A semicolon
d. Quotation marks

6. 1. One of the functions of the comma is to separate additional information
embedded within a sentence.
a. True
b. False

7. 1. Which two other punctuation marks are also used to separate additional
information inserted in a sentence?
a. Semicolon and comma
b. Dash and brackets
c. Quotation marks and full stop
d. Colon and quotation marks

8. 1. Brackets are also known as ________.
a. Quotation marks
b. Inverted commas
c. Parenthesis
d. Ellipsis

9. 1. Which punctuation mark is used to separate two independent clauses?
a. A comma
b. Brackets
c. A semicolon
d. A colon

10. 1. What is the once of the functions of the colon?
a. To separate items in a list
b. To separate additional information embedded into a sentence
c. To separate two main clauses
d. To introduce a list, an example or a quotation

11. 1. The exact words of a speaker are called reporting clause.
a. True
b. false

12. 1. Direct speech is enclosed with __________.
a. semicolons
b. commas
c. quotation marks
d. brackets

13. 1. Speech marks are also known as quotation marks or inverted commas.
a. True
b. False

14. 1. We can show that we are using a word ironically by placing enclosing the
word in ______.
a. brackets
b. quotation marks
c. commas
d. ellipsis

15. 1. Compound words like mother-in-law are separated using which of the
following punctuation marks?
a. Ellipsis
b. Dashes
c. Hyphens
d. Brackets

16. 1. Two independent clauses separate by a comma is known as a
a. comma splice
b. ellipsis
c. sentence
d. compound clause

17. 1. Apostrophes are used to show the omission of letters in words and to show
possession.
a. True
b. False

18. 1. Insert the missing punctuation.
• My favorite subjects are Math English Science and PE.
a. are, Math,
b. Math, English, Science
c. are:
d. Math; English; Science

19. 1. Punctuate the following sentence correctly:
• After I came home I began reviewing my English assignment.
a. After,
b. After I came home I began reviewing,
c. After I came home,
d. The sentence is correct.

20. 1. What punctuation mark is missing?
• George Cadle Price 1919 – 2011 will forever be remembered as the Father of
the Nation.
a. Price, 1919 – 2011 will
b. Price – 1919 – 2011 will
c. Price “1919 – 2011” will
d. Price (1919 – 2011) will

21. 1. Add the missing punctuation.
• My English classes are so challenging sometimes I feel like giving up on them.
a. challenging,
b. challenging (sometimes…)
c. challenging;
d. challenging.