Quiz: Finer Points of Punctuation

Which of the following means expressing someone else's ideas in your own words?

paraphrasing

Some of the following sentences are missing quotation marks that are necessary or include ones that are unnecessary or incorrectly positioned in relation to other punctuation. Select the answer option that has no quotation mark errors; or, if the original sentence is correct, select No change."Based on Carlos's advice," Sonja decided to delve into Frost's personal life but to tie in her discussion to his poems 'The Death of the Hired Man 'and 'Once by the Pacific.'

Based on Carlos's advice, Sonja decided to delve into Frost's personal life but to tie in her discussion to his poems "The Death of the Hired Man" and "Once by the Pacific."

Some of the following sentences are missing quotation marks that are necessary or include ones that are unnecessary or incorrectly positioned in relation to other punctuation. Select the answer option that has no quotation mark errors; or, if the original sentence is correct, select No change.Carlos said that "he found a quotation I might use in my research paper about Robert Frost:" "The geography of Robert Frost's life, especially the first half of it, itself constitutes a minor American saga (Brooks, Lewis, Warren, 1856)."

Carlos said that he found a quotation I might use in my research paper about Robert Frost: "The geography of Robert Frost's life, especially the first half of it, itself constitutes a minor American saga" (Brooks, Lewis, Warren, 1856).

For each of the following items, select the answer option that uses quotation marks appropriately for the title of a short work.

David Brooks's column "The Triumph of Hope over Self-Interest"

In each of the following items, select the sentence with correct end punctuation; or, if neither sentence is correct, select Neither is correct.

He didn't know the answer, but he plays eighteen holes of golf every chance he gets.

Identify the correct sentence.

In order to assess your level of improvement in the course, you need to take both the pretest and the posttest.

Some of the following sentences are missing quotation marks that are necessary or include ones that are unnecessary or incorrectly positioned in relation to other punctuation. Select the answer option that has no quotation mark errors; or, if the original sentence is correct, select No change."Do you think I should focus on Frost's personal life," Sonja asked Carlos, "or concentrate solely on his poetry?"

No change

Some of the following sentences are missing quotation marks that are necessary or include ones that are unnecessary or incorrectly positioned in relation to other punctuation. Select the answer option that has no quotation mark errors; or, if the original sentence is correct, select No change.Once she started her research, Sonja discovered that Robert Frost's poetry was "totally awesome."

No change

Some of the following sentences use quotation marks incorrectly with other punctuation marks. If a sentence has an error, select the correct version. If the original sentence is correct, select No change.When Sigmund Freud asked, "What do women want?" he didn't know modern women would have an answer for him.

No change

Find the noun that requires an apostrophe ('). Indicate the correct possessive form of the noun with the apostrophe in the correct place. ExampleJims files were misplaced. Jim's Our employees bonus checks will be issued on January 10.

Our employees bonus check's will be issued on January 10.

Each of the following items is a direct quotation from the writing of Benjamin Franklin. Select the sentence that uses quotation marks and accompanying commas correctly in quoting the item; or, if neither sentence is correct, select Neither is correct."Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

Quoting Ben Franklin, the counselor advised the couple to "keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

He took the womans hat and hid it in the men's room.

change womans to woman's

Some of the following sentences use quotation marks incorrectly with other punctuation marks. If a sentence has an error, select the correct version. If the original sentence is correct, select No change.When I was a child, my mother used to say, "Wait until your father gets home;" when Dad arrived, the punishments were handed out.

When I was a child, my mother used to say, "Wait until your father gets home"; when Dad arrived, the punishments were handed out.

To indicate a word is slang or informal usage, ________.

enclose it in quotation marks

Use ________ to emphasize a word or an expression.

italics