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Full Stop Punctuation for Class V

Learn when and how to use full stops in English sentences, including declarative and imperative sentences, fixing comma splices, and distinguishing full stops from other punctuation marks.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Identify the kind of sentences that make use of a full stop at the end.

  1. interrogative
  2. declarative
  3. imperative
  4. exclamatory
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The following sentence has been punctuated correctly:
Jason asked whether we knew his uncle?

  1. True
  2. False
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Illiteracy is an enormous A. problem, it B. affects millions of people C. worldwide and is an D. impediment to social progress.

Choose the option that indicates the error in the sentence.

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D
  5. No error
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence.

The man took the picture down from the wall, he then cleaned the frame of the picture.

  1. The man took the picture down from the wall. He then cleaned the frame of the picture.
  2. The man took the picture down from the wall: he then cleaned the frame of the picture.
  3. The man took the picture down from the wall = he then cleaned the frame of the picture.
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

She walked down the road to the garden,

  1. NO CHANGE
  2. garden.
  3. garden'
  4. garden;
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The station was a hive of bustling activity; the arrival of the train was the most important event of the day in that remote place.

Choose the option that indicates the error in the sentence.

  1. Hive
  2. Activity
  3. Most important
  4. In
  5. No error
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that indicates the error in the sentence.

All the trapped miners began to lose hope, it had been twenty-four hours since the tunnel had collapsed.

  1. began
  2. lose
  3. , it
  4. since
  5. sentence.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

His car was dented in an accident on the highway:

  1. highway.
  2. highway,
  3. highway;
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

He climbed the highest mountain in the state.

  1. NO CHANGE
  2. state;
  3. state,
  4. state:
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

The little girl danced to the music,

  1. music.
  2. music;
  3. music:
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

He prefers music to art - he therefore went to a concert instead of an art exhibition.

  1. art: he
  2. art, he
  3. art. He
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point:
He first painted the walls of the house, then, he painted the roof.

  1. house; then
  2. house - then
  3. house. Then
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

After he woke up in the morning, he made himself some breakfast and then drank a glass of juice,

  1. NO CHANGE
  2. juice.
  3. juice;
  4. juice:
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

He opened the box of chocolate and took one out to eat.

  1. NO CHANGE
  2. eat,
  3. eat;
  4. eat:
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

She called her accountant on Tuesday morning:

  1. morning;
  2. morning,
  3. morning.
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

She picked up the book from the table. She then opened it to the first chapter.

  1. NO CHANGE
  2. table, she
  3. table: she
  4. table- she
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

This is a red dress.

  1. dress,
  2. dress!
  3. dress;
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)


Fill in the blank with the correct option.
Full stop is omitted after ______.

  1. Date
  2. After the title of book
  3. Initials of first name
  4. All of the above
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the blank with the correct option.
To end a declarative sentence we use a/an _______.

  1. Comma
  2. Full stop
  3. Exclamation mark
  4. Question mark
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The football players wondered if they would be flying to Germany for a match that summer?

Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word.

  1. NO CHANGE
  2. that summer.
  3. that summer!
  4. that summer -
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

They walk the dog in the evening;

  1. NO CHANGE
  2. evening:
  3. evening,
  4. evening.
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

He flew to Chicago, after that, he took a car to his parents' house.

  1. NO CHANGE
  2. Chicago. After
  3. Chicago: after
  4. Chicago - after
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

They love to eat out at the city's newest restaurants;

  1. restaurants,
  2. restaurants:
  3. restaurants.
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

One of our best employees was ill;

  1. ill,
  2. ill.
  3. ill -
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

She wore a red dress with long sleeves.

  1. sleeves,
  2. sleeves;
  3. sleeves:
  4. NO CHANGE
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.

She walked to a cafe: there, she ordered a Cappucino.

  1. cafe,
  2. cafe -
  3. cafe.
  4. NO CHANGE

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