Choose the sentence that has no comma errors. Remember that not every sentence requires commas.?
Question by DIVASTAR: Choose the sentence that has no comma errors. Remember that not every sentence requires commas.?
Please hand-deliver this letter to 2323 Fontana Drive, Pompano Beach, Florida, by Tuesday, August 16.
The Continental Congress met on July 4 1776 to ratify the Declaration of Independence.
Is Paris France the site of the Pompidou Museum?
For an airmail package to arrive in Sweden by Dec. 25 2004, mail it from Chicago by Nov. 30 2004.
20. Choose the sentence that has no comma errors. Remember that not every sentence requires commas. (Points: 2)
Hurry Tony, you’ll be late for the club meeting!
Sir can you tell me the time?
Ms. O’Hara is not available right now, Mr. Johns.
Walk right up there, Allison and tell them what you think.
21. Choose the sentence that has no comma errors. Remember that not every sentence requires commas. (Points: 2)
By the way supper will be at 6:30 tonight.
Sausage and pepperoni pizza, in Melissa’s opinion, is the best food in the world.
You should, nevertheless save some time for volunteering.
His speech to the staff members on the other hand, was difficult to understand.
22. Choose the sentence that uses italics, quotation marks, or both correctly. (Points: 2)
“Edelweiss” is sung as a farewell by the Von Trapp family in the play The Sound of Music.
Betty’s article, “Kwanzaa Is Coming,” is in yesterday’s copy of the Bethlehem Globe-Times.
Mom is making a recipe from the chapter called Cooking with Pizzazz in her new “Jazz Cookbook.”
The movie “Cold Mountain” is reviewed in this week’s Newsweek magazine.
23. Choose the sentence that uses italics, quotation marks, or both correctly. (Points: 2)
Composer George Gershwin wrote the music for the 1935 opera “Porgy and Bess.”
The 1980 book Cosmos is one of astronomer Carl Sagan’s best known works.
Many people love the book The Little Prince, written by aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1943.
Thomas Gainsborough, an eighteenth-century artist, painted the landscape “The Watering Place.”
24. Choose the sentence that uses quotation marks correctly. (Points: 2)
“What is poetic meter? asked Timothy.”
Edward responded “that poetic meter must measure how long a poem is.”
Is there such a thing “queried Anna,” as poetic yard?
“In poetry,” said Dina, “meter is a regular rhythmic pattern.”
25. Choose the sentence that uses commas and end marks correctly. (Points: 2)
“Who knows” asked Andy, “who the Mugwumps were?”
“I haven’t the faintest idea.” exclaimed Dave loudly.
“Are they some kind of extinct animal”? wondered Claudia.
“They were Republicans,” answered Eve, “who supported the Democratic presidential candidate in 1884.”
26. Choose the sentence with a properly punctuated and capitalized direct quotation. (Points: 2)
Claudia asked “why did the Mugwumps desert their political party?”
Eve answered. “They thought the Republican candidate, James Blaine, was corrupt”.
“So who,” questioned Dave, “won that election?”
“Grover Cleveland won”, Said Eve. “He was the first Democratic president since the Civil War.”
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Answer by Jaclyn M
DATES and PLACES need to have commas.
Please hand-deliver this letter to 2323 Fontana Drive, Pompano Beach, Florida, by Tuesday, August 16.
The Continental Congress met on July 4 1776 to ratify the Declaration of Independence.
Is Paris France the site of the Pompidou Museum?
SINCE I have the feeling I’m doing your homework, I’ve chosen to instruct rather than give you the answers. 🙂
For an airmail package to arrive in Sweden by Dec. 25 2004, mail it from Chicago by Nov. 30 2004.
When ADDRESSING a person in a sentence, use commas on both sides (but not if there’s other punctuation already there like end marks)
20. Choose the sentence that has no comma errors. Remember that not every sentence requires commas. (Points: 2)
Hurry Tony, you’ll be late for the club meeting!
Sir can you tell me the time?
Ms. O’Hara is not available right now, Mr. Johns.
Walk right up there, Allison and tell them what you think.
PARENTHETICAL expressions like “by the way” also get commas on both sides unless there’s already punctuation.
21. Choose the sentence that has no comma errors. Remember that not every sentence requires commas. (Points: 2)
By the way supper will be at 6:30 tonight.
Sausage and pepperoni pizza, in Melissa’s opinion, is the best food in the world.
You should, nevertheless save some time for volunteering.
His speech to the staff members on the other hand, was difficult to understand.
BOOKS, MOVIES, NEWSPAPERS get italics or underlines; STORIES, SONGS, POEMS, ARTICLES get quotation marks (a smaller part of a book magazine, newspaper)
22. Choose the sentence that uses italics, quotation marks, or both correctly. (Points: 2)
“Edelweiss” is sung as a farewell by the Von Trapp family in the play The Sound of Music.
Betty’s article, “Kwanzaa Is Coming,” is in yesterday’s copy of the Bethlehem Globe-Times.
Mom is making a recipe from the chapter called Cooking with Pizzazz in her new “Jazz Cookbook.”
The movie “Cold Mountain” is reviewed in this week’s Newsweek magazine.
SAME RULE as above.
23. Choose the sentence that uses italics, quotation marks, or both correctly. (Points: 2)
Composer George Gershwin wrote the music for the 1935 opera “Porgy and Bess.”
The 1980 book Cosmos is one of astronomer Carl Sagan’s best known works.
Many people love the book The Little Prince, written by aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1943.
Thomas Gainsborough, an eighteenth-century artist, painted the landscape “The Watering Place.”
QUOTATION marks before and after quote—comma if the sentence continues unless there’s an end mark.
24. Choose the sentence that uses quotation marks correctly. (Points: 2)
“What is poetic meter? asked Timothy.”
Edward responded “that poetic meter must measure how long a poem is.”
Is there such a thing “queried Anna,” as poetic yard?
“In poetry,” said Dina, “meter is a regular rhythmic pattern.”
OOPS—same rule as above but WITHIN a sentence—use a comma not a period; with ?! don’t use comma.
25. Choose the sentence that uses commas and end marks correctly. (Points: 2)
“Who knows” asked Andy, “who the Mugwumps were?”
“I haven’t the faintest idea.” exclaimed Dave loudly.
“Are they some kind of extinct animal”? wondered Claudia.
“They were Republicans,” answered Eve, “who supported the Democratic presidential candidate in 1884.”
CAPITALIZE the beginning of a sentence; don’t capitalize in the middle of a sentence (unless it’s a name)
26. Choose the sentence with a properly punctuated and capitalized direct quotation. (Points: 2)
Claudia asked “why did the Mugwumps desert their political party?”
Eve answered. “They thought the Republican candidate, James Blaine, was corrupt”.
“So who,” questioned Dave, “won that election?”
“Grover Cleveland won”, Said Eve. “He was the first Democratic president since the Civil War.”
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