Conjunctions and Punctuation Worksheet

Choose the sentence that is free from errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

• The story "How the Groundhog Lost His Tail" is an account of some wolves and a groundhog.

• The story "How the Groundhog Lost His Tail" is an account of some wolfs and a groundhog.

• The story How the Groundhog Lost His Tail is an account of some wolves and a groundhog.

• The story "How the groundhog lost His Tail" is an account of some wolves and a groundhog.

As writers, what do we do to story titles or titles of short pieces of work?

• double underline them

• underline them

• put them in quotation marks

• put an apostrophe before and after the title

• put parentheses around them

What is an irregular plural?

• a plural that ends in -s, -es, or -ies

• a plural that doesn't mean more than one

• a plural is a possessive noun

• a plural shows ownership

• a plural that doesn't end in -s, -es, or -ies

Choose the correct sentence:

• A. The groundhog uses his intelligence so he loses his tail instead of his life.

• B. The groundhog use his intelligence, so he loses his tail instead of his life.

• C. The groundhog uses his intelligence, so he loses his tail instead of his life.

• D. The growndog uses his intelligence, so he loses his tail instead of his life.

Choose all the following that are considered to be conjunctions in parts of speech.

• a

• but

• an

• and

• so

As writers, what punctuation mark do we use before conjunctions in compound sentences?

• semicolon

• apostrophe

• period

• colon

• comma