Dashes

Dashes

8th Grade

25 Qs

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Dashes

Dashes

Assessment

Quiz

English

8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Sarah Williams

FREE Resource

25 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When do you use dashes?

Beginning of the Sentence

End of the Sentence

Whenever you want to

Both A and B

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In conclusion what is the main purpose of the single dash.

A single dash can emphasize material at the beginning or end of a sentence.

Serves as a longer pause than a comma.

Makes sentences fluid when used correctly.

Explain a sentence in further detail.

All of the above.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What is used to show a sudden break in a sentence, to emphasize a word or clause, and to show that someone's speech is being interrupted?

hyphen

dash

quotation mark

a breath

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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he homerun ball smashed through—the neighbor's window—and rolled into the living room.

—the neighbor's window?

the neighbor's window—

the neighbor's window

No Change

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Everywhere we traveled in Kyoto there were vending machines—some served green tea while others carried only juice.

some served green tea while others carried only juice.

,some served green tea while others carried only juice—

—some served green tea while others carried only juice—

No Change

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