ITBS Capitalization and Punctuation 3

Question 1

Which sentence correctly punctuates a quotation?

Accepted Answer

She said, "I love reading."

Answer

A direct quotation requires a comma after the dialogue tag and the period inside the closing quotation marks.

Question 2

Which sentence has correct capitalization for the months of the year?

Accepted Answer

My birthday is in August.

Answer

Months of the year are proper nouns and must always be capitalized.

Question 3

Which sentence correctly uses an exclamation point?

Accepted Answer

Watch out for that car!

Answer

An exclamation point is placed at the end of an exclamatory sentence to show strong feeling.

Question 4

Which word in the sentence needs a capital letter? 'last summer, we visited the grand canyon.'

Accepted Answer

Grand

Answer

'Grand Canyon' is a proper noun (specific geographic location) and both words must be capitalized.

Question 5

Which sentence uses a hyphen correctly?

Accepted Answer

She is a well-known author.

Answer

A hyphen joins compound modifiers that come before the noun they describe, such as 'well-known author'.

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