Professional Communications Semester Quiz 3

A ___________________is used at the end of an interrogative sentence.

•  period
• quotation mark
• question mark
• exclamation mark

__________ participle indicates action is in progress or ongoing.

• dangling
• gerund
• period 
• present

A gerund is a verb form used as a noun, formed by adding ______.

• –ed     
• –ing     
• –s       
• –‘s

__________ participle is a writing error in which a participle phrase modifies nothing or the wrong person or object.

• preposition
• silly                 
• dangling         
• hanging

____________ are used to enclose short, direct quotes and titles of some artistic or written works.

• parenthesis
• hashtags
• periods
• quotation marks

When a word is divided at the end of a line of text, a ______ is used between parts of the word.

• Comma           
• hyphen
• period 
• tab

A ______ is used to separate hours and minutes.

• Comma
• colon
• semi-colon     
• period

A ________ is used to separate two independent clauses that are not joined by a coordinating conjunction.

• Comma
• colon
• semi-colon     
• period

Abbreviations of days of the week are NOT capitalized .

• True
• False

Capitalization is used for proper nouns, for some abbreviations, in personal and  professional titles, and for parts of business letters.

• True
• False