ELA 8 Punctuation Review

My favorite pizza toppings are: sausage, peppers, extra cheese, and mushrooms.

• Correctly punctuated 
• Incorrectly punctuated

Easterlys offered to coach the team this year; however the competition for the job is fierce.

• Correctly punctuated

• Incorrectly punctuated

Even though the Mariners aren't playing in the World Series, I still want to know who wins.

• Correctly punctuated

• Incorrectly punctuated

I've done all my chores; therefore, I deserve to go hang out with my friends.

• Correctly punctuated
• Incorrectly punctuated

I can't stand Halloween, it's a crazy night filled with hyper kids who've eaten too much sugar.

• Correctly punctuated
• Incorrectly punctuated

My little brother wanted to come with me to the party but I wouldn't pick him up.

• Correctly punctuated

• Incorrectly punctuated

I love going to the mall, and shopping for clothes.

• Correctly punctuated
• Incorrectly punctuated

Where does a semicolon belong?

• between closely related independent clauses

• before a conjunctive adverb in certain cases

• avoid confusion when you have complicated lists of items

• All of the above

Choose the correct punctuation: "If Betty eats ice cream ____ gets cold.

• ; she
• she
• , she
• .

For, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so are preceded by a comma _________.

• all the time
• in every sentence
• never
• when joining two independent clauses