For each of the following items, choose the answer that illustrates the correct punctuation.
Several drivers over 100,000 last year fail to understand what the word yield means on a yield
sign.
a. Several drivers over 100,00 last year fail to understand what the word yield means on
a yield sign.
b. Several drivers over 100,000 last year fail to understand what the word yield means on
a yield sign.
c. Several drivers, over 100,000 last year, fail to understand what the word: yield means on
a yield sign.
Ques. 2Put quotations where necessary in the following sentences. An answer key follows.
If you will keep up with your daily math homework, stressed Dr. Bradshaw, you will be
prepared when it is time to be tested.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3For each of the following items, choose the answer that illustrates the correct punctuation.
Is your favorite poem really called Roses are Red?
a. Is your favorite poem really called: Roses are Red?
b. Is your favorite poem really called Roses are Red?
c. Is your favorite poem really called Roses are Red?
Ques. 4Put quotations where necessary in the following sentences. An answer key follows.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is one of Robert Frost's better known poems.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 5For each of the following items, choose the answer that illustrates the correct punctuation.
To be or not to be is one of Shakespeare's most famous quotes.
a. To be or not to be is one of Shakespeare's most famous quotes.
b. To be or not to be is one of Shakespeare's most famous quotes.
c. To be or not to be; is one of Shakespeare's most famous quotes.
Ques. 6Put quotations where necessary in the following sentences. An answer key follows.
I did not understand Kate Chopin's short story A Pair of Silk Stockings until I was a
young mother myself.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 7For each of the following items, choose the answer that illustrates the correct punctuation.
My good for nothing ex sister in law finally left town.
a. My good-for-nothing ex-sister-in -law finally left town.
b. My good for nothing ex-sister-in-law finally left town.
c. My good-for-nothing ex sister-in-law finally left town.
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