English Quiz

Quiz 5 Name (please put your name on your work if you are sending it as an attachment) ___________

For all of these, give a brief explanation in your own words as to how to punctuate correctly. Then write an example.

Sample

What is the rule for using interjections in a sentence? http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000341.htm

Use a comma if the utterance is of lower intensity; use an exclamation point without capitalizing the next word if the interjection if of higher intensity.

Hey, who ate my sandwich?

Hey! who ate my sandwich?

1) Serial—or Oxford—commas with a simple list.

2) Commas in a list where at least one of the items has a comma in it. An example would be, “a high-fat, low fiber diet.”

3) Commas when using a city/state and a date/year in the same sentence.

4) Commas and other quotation marks without a parenthetical citation.

5) Commas and other quotation marks with a parenthetical citation.

6) Commas when beginning a sentence with a subordinating conjunction. Those are words which set up a condition or an if/then statement. http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000377.htm

7) Commas where the subordinating conjunction is not at the beginning of the sentence.

8) Commas when beginning a sentence with a preposition. http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000360.htm

9) Commas when beginning a sentence with any form of a verb, such as any of to verb, barbing, verbed.

10) For two of these in 6, 8, and 9, there is a tip to tell you if you put the comma in the right place. Which two and what is the tip? Why does the tip not work for the other one?

11) Commas with an appositive anywhere in the sentence.

12) Using the long dash when giving a more formal or technical definition, for spelling out an abbreviation, or for providing the abbreviation. The long dash is two taps of the hyphen or minus key.

13) Commas when you could have two independent sentences which are joined by a coordinating conjunction.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000323.htm

14) Joining what could be two independent sentences with a different punctuation mark.

15) You have what could be a complete sentence before beginning a list. One punctuation mark may be used, one cannot be used. Tell me which is which and write a sample sentence.

16) Use of apostrophes to show plural or possession or plural possession.

17) Use of apostrophes with pronouns.

18) Use of apostrophes with numbers such as in describing the decade from 1980-1989.