Using Punctuation

Question 1

Read the sentence.My brother who is a superb actor will audition tomorrow for a film role.

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My brother—who is a superb actor—will audition tomorrow for a film role.

Question 2

commahyphenperiodsemicolon

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hyphen

Question 3

Which sentences contain phrases that are hyphenated correctly? Select 3 options.Over a-third of our class walks to school, while another-third rides the bus.The recipe only uses one-sixteenth of a cup of sugar per thirty-two cupcakes.We planted forty-two trees, but the twenty-two apple trees were my favorites.I will be twenty-five years old the same year that my grandma is one-hundred.We had to memorize twenty-one verses, which was only one-half of the poem.

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The recipe only uses one-sixteenth of a cup of sugar per thirty-two cupcakes.; We planted forty-two trees, but the twenty-two apple trees were my favorites.; We had to memorize twenty-one verses, which was only one-half of the poem.

Question 4

When items in a list already contain commas, the writer should separate the items in the list using

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semicolons.

Question 5

Read the sentence.I spend about half my time, he spends two thirds of his time, and she spends a quarter, or maybe a third, of her time on research.

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I spend about half my time, he spends two-thirds of his time, and she spends a quarter, or maybe a third, of her time on research.

Question 6

Read the sentence.Michael Jordan, the basketball player, won six championships for the Chicago Bulls.

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a nonrestrictive phrase.

Question 7

Read the passage.Hanna and Ai-Lin had to wait in line for three hours to buy concert tickets. Then, they had to park a mile away and wait for forty five minutes to get into the stadium. Over one thousand people attended the concert!

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“forty five.”

Question 8

Read the sentence.We’re performing a scene from my favorite book (the second in the trilogy).

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The writer correctly uses parentheses to de-emphasize a nonrestrictive element in the sentence.

Question 9

When a descriptive word, phrase, or clause is essential to the meaning of a sentence, that element is

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restrictive.

Question 10

Sometimes hyphens are used to link words that work together to modify a single noun. These linked words are called

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compound modifiers.

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