Apposition / Punctuation Practice Exercises
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By Schuck.jane
Questions and Answers
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1.When appositives have commas inside them, what punctuation is used instead to enclose the appositive? Example: To her, the young man__a broad, six feet tall giant__seemed menacingly close.
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A.
A pair of dashes
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B.
Semi-colons
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C.
Colons
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D.
Parentheses
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E.
Brackets
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A.
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2.What role does the dash play in the following sentence? Example: It was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the power I had - the ability to strike fear into others through my menacing visage.
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A.
It separates the appositive from the rest of the sentence
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B.
It puts special emphasis on the appositive
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C.
Both A and C
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A.
