Punctuation With Quotation Marks
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 163
This quiz will test your knowledge of when and where to put punctuation when using quotation marks. (English rules are used throughout)
Questions and Answers
- 1.This sentence has no grammar errors; true or false? My father always said, "Be careful what you wish for."
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.There are no grammar errors in this phrase, true or false? —The sign said, "Walk". Then it said, "Don't Walk," then, "Walk", all within thirty seconds.He yelled, "Hurry up.“
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Select the statements that are free of grammar errors.
- A.
Phillip asked, "Do you need this book?"
- B.
I think he said, "Go to bed"!
- C.
Does Dr. Lim always say to her students, "You must work harder"?
- 4.Is the following statement grammatically error free, true or false?"Didn't he ask, 'What did we do, who preceded you?' ?" queried Johnson.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Is the following statement grammatically error free, true or false?Wasn't it Malcolm X who declared, "Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!"?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Is the following sentence free of grammar errors, true or false?“Ode to Ants”: A Moving and Insightful Song
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Is the following statement grammatically error free, true or false?Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." (Wordsworth 263)
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Is the following statement grammatically error free, true or false?"What do you mean, "What do I mean?" "
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Is the following statement grammatically error free, true or false? Are you sure he said, “Did Dan cry, ‘Take out the trash!’ "?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.The difference between American English and British English with regards to quotation marks is...
- A.
American English has more definitive rules
- B.
British English has more definitive rules
- C.
There is no difference between the two
- D.
I have no idea!
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