Capitalization and Punctuation Flashcards
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Which sentence correctly punctuates a quotation?
Answer: She said, "I love reading."
A direct quotation requires a comma after the dialogue tag and the period inside the closing quotation marks.
Which sentence has correct capitalization for the months of the year?
Answer: My birthday is in August.
Months of the year are proper nouns and must always be capitalized.
Which sentence correctly uses an exclamation point?
Answer: Watch out for that car!
An exclamation point is placed at the end of an exclamatory sentence to show strong feeling.
Which word in the sentence needs a capital letter? 'last summer, we visited the grand canyon.'
Answer: Grand
'Grand Canyon' is a proper noun (specific geographic location) and both words must be capitalized.
Which sentence uses a hyphen correctly?
Answer: She is a well-known author.
A hyphen joins compound modifiers that come before the noun they describe, such as 'well-known author'.
In which sentence is the period used incorrectly?
Answer: She called me at 5.00 PM.
A colon, not a period, is used to separate hours from minutes when writing time (5:00 PM).
Which sentence correctly capitalizes a specific school subject?
Answer: I am taking Spanish this year.
Names of languages (Spanish) are proper nouns and always capitalized, unlike general subjects like 'history'.