Capitalization and Punctuation Review

You must capitalize the beginning word of each sentence.

• True

• False

Which word is incorrectly capitalized in the following sentence?

In November of this year, the President of the United States is up for re-election.

• November

• President

• United

• States

Both the salutation and the closing of a letter must be capitalized.

• True

• False

Which word is incorrectly capitalized in the following sentence?

My favorite season of the year is Summer because that is when we celebrate the Fourth of July.

• Fourth

• July

• Summer

Hyphens are used to separate items in a sentence.

• True

• False

Choose the correct way to write the following number in word form.

78

• seven eight

• seventy-eight

• seventy eight

Hyphens must come between these three prefixes and the word after it.

• self, all, ex

• trans, sub, post

• uni, non, in

• co, dis, anti

A colon is used to introduce a list of items.

• True

• False

Semicolons come before conjunctive adverbs in a sentence.

• True

• False

Select all of the conjunctive adverbs.

• furthermore

• therefore

• consequently

• because