Punctuation Quiz

end marks tell...

•  the reader where a sentence ends

• shows the purpose of the sentence

• shows the beginning of the sentence

• shows that the sentence will not start again

I like pizza.

• declarative

• exclamatory

• imperative

• interrogative

Make me a pizza, please.

• declarative

• exclamatory

• imperative

• interrogative

Do you like pizza?

• declarative

• exclamatory

• imperative

• interrogative

I like pizza!

• declarative

• exclamatory

• imperative

• interrogative

Commas...

• This helps keep the reader from running together certain words and phrases when they should be kept apart.

• tell the reader to pause at certain spots in the sentence.

• marks the end of a sentence

• separate words or groups of words within a sentence

choose all the sentences that use commas in a series correctly

• The school supplies he needs include pencils, erasers, paper, and a ruler.

• Possums, rabbits, and squirrels invaded my yard.

• I got a pencil, and an eraser.

• I went to the store and got chips, milk, and ice cream.

Use commas to separate adjectives...

• to separate ideas

• when separating adjectives modifying a noun. 

• Think of the comma as replacing the word “and.”

• when there is a list of words

It was a dark stormy night.

Is this sentence correct? If not correct it.

• Yes

• No, It was a dark, stormy night.

• No, It was a dark and stormy night.

• No, it was a dark, stormy, and night.

Use commas with conjunctions when...

• separating adjectives modifying a noun. 

• making a list of conjunctions

• you combine sentences using and, but, or, nor, yet, so, for (FANBOYS).

• ending a sentence