Using Quotation Marks

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Cohort 32 - Punctuation

This part of the test is on punctuation. You have 5 minutes to complete this section.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 575 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question
Select the correct answer-

The x-ray, as well as the MRI, was negative for any signs of a foreign body.

The x-ray, as well as the MRI was negative for any signs of a foreign body.

The x-ray as well as the MRI, was negative for any signs of a foreign body.

Colons And Semicolons Quiz: Test!

This Colons and Semicolons Quiz assesses your ability to correctly use punctuation in various sentence structures. It covers the use of semicolons in series, between independent...

Questions: 18 | Attempts: 4457 | Last updated: Jun 25, 2024

Sample Question
Which is/ are correct sentence/s?

You asked for forgiveness, He granted it to you.

You asked for forgiveness; he granted it to you.

You asked for forgiveness. He granted it to you.

You asked for forgiveness he granted it to you.

Grammar And Punctuation Quiz

Warning: this grammar and punctuation quiz isn't for the faint of heart. Think you know your grammar and punctuation like the back of your hand? The questions on this quiz...

Questions: 16 | Attempts: 1191 | Last updated: Aug 18, 2023

Sample Question
My favorite music is alternative rock from the __________.

90s

'90's

90's

'90s

Comma Rules Quiz - LeMon

The 'Comma Rules Quiz - LeMon' assesses understanding of comma usage in various contexts. It covers rules like separating items in a list, clauses, direct address, coordinating...

Questions: 15 | Attempts: 206 | Last updated: Mar 14, 2023

Sample Question
Which of the following sentences uses correct comma placement?

Carlos drove to the market, to purchase tomatoes, lettuce milk and bread.

Carlos drove to the market to purchase tomatoes, lettuce, milk, and bread.

Carlos drove to the market to purchase tomatoes lettuce, milk, and bread.

Carlos drove to the market to purchase tomatoes, lettuce, bread, and, milk.

Exercise 11: Comma Splices

The sentences comprise sections 2-6 of Plutarch’s Life of Themistocles (Loeb translation by R. Waterfield, Harvard University Press 1998, slightly altered to create the...

Questions: 30 | Attempts: 225 | Last updated: Aug 21, 2023

Sample Question
Does this sentence contain a comma splice?It is generally agreed that even as a child Themistocles was full of restless energy, and combined natural intelligence with an inclination towards involvement in activities and public life.

No: it is correct as it is.

Yes

Exercise 3: Apostrophe Used For Contraction And Possession

Choose the correct word to fill in the blank. Some sentences are ambiguous if taken in isolation, but they all have only one right answer in context: keep in mind that the...

Questions: 22 | Attempts: 428 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
One day ___ sister Beth came to visit.

Martin's

Martins'

Martins

Using Quotation Marks

She asks, ʺCould anybody but Mark Twain have told the story of Adam and Eve without mentioning Jehovah.ʺ

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Science fiction writer Ursula Le Guinn writes: ʺI was raised as irreligious as a jack rabbit, and probably this is one reason Mark Twain made so much sense to me.ʺ

Writing about the conclusion of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Toni Morrison wonders, ʺWill that undefined space, so falsely imagined as ʺopen,ʺ be free of social chaos, personal morbidity, and further moral complications embedded in adulthood and citizenship?ʺ

Hal Holbrook says that ʺhe wasnʹt aware of Mark Twainʹs potential for social commentary until he was in Little Rock in 1957.ʺ

In Roughing It, Mark Twain has this to say about the fate of the thousands of young men who came to Virginia City seeking gold ʺall gone, or nearly allπvictims devoted upon the altar of the golden calf.ʺ

ʺHere again is Kiplingʹs old dictum that ʺEast is East and West is West.ʺ

James Joyceʹs response to complaints about his use of vulgar language is thisʺ: This race and this life produced me--I shall express myself as I am.ʺ

ʺArt itself,ʺ Conrad wrote ʺmay be defined as a single‐minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe.ʺ

Henry James: The Private Universe is the title of an article written by Graham Greene.

According to an early review of D. H. Lawrenceʹs Sons and Lovers, ʺThe book is full of short, vivid descriptions: ʹThe steep swoop of highroad lay in its cool morning dust...ʺ

What a brilliant prediction: ʺProust will never be a widely read writer.ʺ

Is the following quote about James Joyceʹs Ulysses an elitist remark: ʺThe average intelligent reader will glean little or nothing from it.ʺ?

According to Donald Adams, Light in August is a powerful novel, a book which secures Mr. Faulknerʹs place in the very first rank of American Fiction writers.ʺ