Colon Mastery Check Retake

Decide where colon(s) are needed to make the meaning clearer. Ashley made a to-do list clean the kitchen floor, wash the dishes, sweep the floors, and make her bed.

• Ashley made a to-do list: clean the kitchen floor, wash the dishes, sweep the floors, and make her bed.

• The sentence is correct.

• Ashley made a to-do list clean the kitchen floor: wash the dishes, sweep the floors, and make her bed.

• Ashley made: a to-do list clean the kitchen floor, wash the dishes, sweep the floors, and make her bed.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Delete any colon(s) where necessary in the following sentences. I couldn’t believe my ears: and checked with the person next to me.

• Remove the colon

• The sentence is correct.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Delete any colon(s) where necessary in the following sentences. The student stood on his desk and proudly announced to the world: “I am done with school. Boo-yah!”

• Remove the colon

• The sentence is correct.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Is the following colon used correctly or incorrectly when introducing this block quotation? Former President of the United States, George W. Bush senior suggested we: Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

• Incorrect

• Correct

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Choose the sentence in which the colon is used correctly.

• To Whom It May Concern;

• To Whom: It May Concern,

• To Whom It May Concern:

• To Whom It May Concern,

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Choose the correct format for a book title.

• Picasso; Art, Consumerism, and Politics

• Picasso Art, Consumerism, and Politics

• Picasso: Art, Consumerism, and Politics

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Delete any colon(s) where necessary in the following sentences. Around the world: everyone counts down to the end of the week.

• Remove the colon

• The sentence is correct.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Choose the correct sentence.

• Remember the old saying, be careful what you wish for.

• Remember the old saying: Be careful what you wish for.

• Remember the old saying; be careful what you wish for.

• Remember the old saying; Be careful what you wish for.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Decide where colon(s) are needed to make the meaning clearer. My goal is simple get a full-time job, find love, buy a house, and live happily ever after.

• The sentence is correct.

• After house

• After simple

• After get

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Decide where colon(s) are needed to make the meaning clearer. What Tony needed most he never got love.

• What Tony needed most he never got: love.

• The sentence is correct.

• What Tony needed most: he never got love.

• What Tony needed: most he never got love.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B