Dashes Practice
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Dashes Practice
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English
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6th - 7th Grade
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Practice Problem
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Hard
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Margaret Anderson
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11 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
When do you use dashes?
Beginning of the Sentence
End of the Sentence
Whenever you want to
Both A and B
Tags
CCSS.L.6.2A
CCSS.L.8.2A
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
Which description describes a hyphen?
A connection between words that are working as a unit
used to separate a group of words.
to indicate a longer pause than a comma
all of the above
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.2A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What is a disadvantage of overusing dashes?
Makingg it choppy
Breaks up the flow of your writing
Made difficult to follow
All of the above
Tags
CCSS.L.6.2A
CCSS.L.8.2A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What do dashes add to sentences?
Drama
Whisper
less emphasis
less attention
Tags
CCSS.L.6.2A
CCSS.L.8.2A
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What does a single dash emphasize?
Material at the beginning
Material at the end
Material at the middle
Both A and B
All of the above
Tags
CCSS.L.6.2A
CCSS.L.8.2A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
"After eighty years of dreaming, the elderly man realized it was time to finally revisit the land of his youth—Ireland." What does this dash do to this passage.
Nothing
Emphasize where he came from
as a pause
Both b and c
Tags
CCSS.L.6.2A
CCSS.L.8.2A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Where would you place the dash in this passage? "The Office a harmless television program or a dangerously subversive guide to delinquency in the workplace?"
Nowhere
After "The Office"
Before "in the workplace"
Both b and c can work
Tags
CCSS.L.6.2A
CCSS.L.8.2A
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