Test your Punctuation Skill – Learn at your own Pace! Practice Questions with full Answer Key

1. All of the people at the school, including the teachers and _______________ were glad when summer break came.

a. students:
b. students,
c. students;
d. students

2. Sit up straight _____

a. ;
b. ?
c. .
d. :

3. They asked what time the department store would open _____

a. ?
b. .
c. ,
d. ;

4. Who do you think will win the contest _____

a. .
b. !
c. ?
d. ,

5. Choose the sentence below with the correct punctuation.

a. Ted and Janice, who had been friends for years, went on vacation together every summer.
b. Ted and Janice, who had been friends for years, went on vacation together, every summer.
c. Ted, and Janice who had been friends for years, went on vacation together every summer.
d. Ted and Janice who had been friends for years went on vacation together every summer.

6. To _______________, Anne was on time for her math class.

a. everybody’s surprise
b. every body’s surprise
c. everybodys surprise
d. everybodys’ surprise

7. In Edgar Allen Poe’s _______________________ Edgar Allen Poe describes a man with a guilty conscience.

a. short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,”
b. short story The Tell-Tale Heart,
c. short story, The Tell-Tale Heart
d. short story. “the Tell-Tale Heart,”

8. Billboards are considered an important part of advertising for big business, ________________ by their critics.

a. but, an eyesore;
b. but, “ an eyesore,”
c. but an eyesore
d. but-an eyesore

9. I can never remember how to use those two common words, “sell,” meaning to trade a product for money, or _____________________ meaning an event where products are traded for less money than usual.

a. sale.
b. “sale,”
c. “sale
d. “to sale,”

10. The class just finished reading ________________________ a short story by Carl Stephenson about a plantation owner’s battle with army ants.

a. -”Leinengen versus the Ants”,
b. Leinengen versus the Ants,
c. “Leinengen versus the Ants,”
d. Leinengen versus the Ants

11. This is absolutely incredible _____

a. !
b. .
c. :
d. ;

12. Watch out for the broken glass _____
a. .
b. ?
c. ,
d. !