English Grammar Punctuation Flashcards
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Which sentence correctly uses a dash to set off an appositive list?
Answer: Three cities—Paris, Rome, and Tokyo—are on my list.
Em dashes effectively set off an appositive list within a sentence, especially when the list itself contains commas.
Which sentence correctly avoids a comma splice?
Answer: I was tired, so I went to bed.
A comma followed by a coordinating conjunction (so, and, but) correctly joins two independent clauses.
Which sentence uses the hyphen correctly in a compound number?
Answer: She is thirty-five years old.
Compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine are always hyphenated when written out.
Which sentence correctly punctuates a tag question?
Answer: You're coming to the party, aren't you?
A tag question is separated from the main clause by a comma and ends with a question mark.
In a sentence with a list of items that already contain commas, which punctuation separates the items?
Answer: Semicolons
Semicolons are used as 'super-commas' to separate list items that already contain internal commas.
Which correctly punctuates a sentence with a restrictive clause?
Answer: The book that I borrowed is overdue.
A restrictive clause (one essential to the sentence's meaning) is NOT set off by commas.
Which sentence correctly uses a period with an abbreviation at the end?
Answer: She earned her M.D.
When a sentence ends with an abbreviation that already has a period, no second period is added.