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Comma Quiz
Comma Quiz
Date: ___4/15/2021_
Find out which Disney character you are based on your knowledge of commas.
Write a complex cause and effect sentence using the appropriate conjunction:
- In this town there are many unemployed people because they have closed the car factory.
a. When I went to the store I bought, a few things, and then I went home.
b. Because I was very diligent about studying this past year, my final exams did not scare
me at all.
c. Quickly I signed up, for the SAT when I heard that the registration deadline was
tomorrow.
d. Until I graduate my parents, said that I cannot be out past midnight.
The first time I visited my dream college, I could not believe that the teachers, students and
parents all come together for the Homecoming football game every year.
Choose the correct way to combine these two sentences: I like swimming on sunny days. I don’t
like swimming on cloudy, rainy days.
a. I like swimming on sunny days, and I don’t like swimming on cloudy, rainy days.
b. I like swimming on sunny days, for I don’t like swimming on cloudy, rainy days.
c. I like swimming on sunny days, but I don’t like swimming on cloudy, rainy days.
d. I like swimming on Sunday days, or I don’t like swimming on cloudy rainy days
Correctly write a sentence that connects a dependent and independent clause with a comma:
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Which sentence utilizes a comma and conjunction correctly:
a. I wanted to reach the end of the line, but I had no more energy to finish the race.
b. I wanted to eat, and play.
c. Can I eat this cookie, or, that cookie?
d. I wasn’t ready, neither was he.
Do you insert commas with non-coordinative adjectives? Provide an example of a sentence using
non-coordinative adjectives.
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Select the correct version of the sentence:
a. “I want to go to my friend’s house,” the girl said.
b. “I want to go to my friend’s house”, the girl said.
c. “I want to go, to my friend’s house” the girl, said.
d. “I want to go to my friend’s house” the girl, said.
Explain how to fix the following sentence. In your explanation, be sure to include why the
meaning of the sentence changes with this grammatical error.
Be careful Miranda to always check both ways before crossing the street.
Be careful Miranda, to always check both ways before crossing the street.
What happens is that when the comma is not added, the sentence varies in meaning, making it
easy to get confused, and the meaning varies due to the pause made by the comma. when it is not
read it runs and when it pauses.
2-4 Mistakes: You’re Belle! You are very smart but too busy daydreaming to prove it.
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5-8 Mistakes: You’re Hercules! You aren’t quite there yet but one day you will go the distance!
9-12 Mistakes: You’re Olaf! You tried really hard but unfortunately you’re a snowman that likes
summer...the odds aren’t really in your favor.
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13-14 Mistakes: You’re Dumbo! You’re probably really cute but those big ears aren’t very good
at listening to the lesson!
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