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Quizzes (75) Questions (1980)

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Multiple choice ellipses punctuation english

Complete the conversation with a suitable elliptical sentence:
Zeeshan: I don't think the glass is looking clean.
Sahil: _____________

  1. So do I.

  2. I do too.

  3. Neither do I.

  4. Do you?
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Negative answers have the following structure: negative word+ subject+auxiliary verb in the same tense as the question. Hence Option C is correct. The rest of the options do not adhere to the rule, hence incorrect.

Multiple choice inverted commas/quotation marks punctuation english

Choose the option which correctly punctuates the sentence:

Be still, she said, "and let me help you climb back up."

  1. Be still, she said, and let me help you climb back up.

  2. "Be still, she said, and let me help you climb back up."

  3. "Be still," she said, "and let me help you climb back up."

  4. NO CHANGE
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Quotation marks are used to indicate material that is being reproduced word for word. Thus, the correct answer should be Option C.
Option A is incorrect because the speech is not enclosed within quotation marks.
Option B is incorrect because quotation marks end when the direct speech ends and restart when the direct speech begins.
Option D does not include all of the direct speech within quotation marks.
Multiple choice inverted commas/quotation marks punctuation english

"Let me go!" she screamed, fighting off her mother.

Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words.

  1. NO CHANGE

  2. Let me go, she screamed, fighting off her mother.

  3. "Let me go!" she screamed, "fighting off her mother."

  4. Let me go, she screamed, "fighting off her mother."
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Quotation marks are used to indicate material that is being reproduced word for word. In the given sentence, only the first part of the sentence is in direct form of speech and it should be enclosed within quotations. Thus, according to the rules, the correct answer is Option A, no change.
Option B does not enclose the direct speech within quotation marks.
Option C and D are incorrect because the part of the sentence that is not direct is also enclosed within quotation marks.

Multiple choice inverted commas/quotation marks punctuation english

The phrase, lovely, dark and deep, suggests a change in the poem.

Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words.

  1. phrase - lovely, dark and deep,

  2. phrase, "lovely, dark and deep,"

  3. phrase ... lovely, dark and deep ...

  4. NO CHANGE
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B Correct answer
Explanation
Quotation marks are used when we want to use someone else's words in our writing. In the given sentence, a particular phrase has been taken from a poem. This phrase must be enclosed within quotation marks while citing in any sentence. Thus, the correct form of writing the phrase will be, as given in Option B.
Option A - An en dash is used to represent a range of numbers or compound adjectives.
Option C - An ellipsis is generally used to indicate trailing off thought.
Option D is incorrect, a comma is used to set off dependent clauses in a sentence.

Multiple choice inverted commas/quotation marks punctuation english

I wrote, After I got to shore and escaped drowning, I ran about the shore wringing my hands and beating my head and face, exclaiming at my misery, and crying out, 'I was undone, undone!' till, tired and faint, I was forced to lie down on the ground.

Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words.

  1. I wrote, "After I got to shore and escaped drowning, I ran about the shore wringing my hands and beating my head and face, exclaiming at my misery, and crying out, 'I was undone, undone!' till, tired and faint, I was forced to lie down on the ground."

  2. I wrote, "After I got to shore and escaped drowning, I ran about the shore wringing my hands and beating my head and face, exclaiming at my misery, and crying out, I was undone, undone, till, tired and faint, I was forced to lie down on the ground."

  3. I wrote, After I got to shore and escaped drowning, I ran about the shore wringing my hands and beating my head and face, exclaiming at my misery, and crying out, I was undone, undone, till, tired and faint, I was forced to lie down on the ground.

  4. NO CHANGE
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
The given sentence is in direct speech and cites the exact words of the speaker. According to rules of punctuation, we use quotation marks with direct quotes. Single quotes are used for quotes within quotes. Thus, according to the rules, the correct answer will be Option A.
Option B is incorrect, as the quote within the quote also must be set off within single quotes.
Option C is also incorrect, as the direct speech of the subject is not put within double quotations.
Multiple choice inverted commas/quotation marks punctuation english

Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words.

"I shall miss you when you depart for your own country, said he."

  1. "I shall miss you when you depart for your own country," said he.

  2. I shall miss you when you depart for your own country, said he.

  3. "I shall miss you when you depart for your own country?" said he.

  4. NO CHANGE
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Quotation marks are used to indicate material that is being reproduced word for word. Quotation marks must begin and end with the direct speech. 
According to these rules, Option D can be termed wrong, as it encloses the whole sentence within quotes. 
Option B is incorrect, the direct speech is not enclosed within quotation marks.
Option C is incorrect as, the given sentence does not require a question mark at the end of the direct speech.
The correct answer is Option A.
Multiple choice inverted commas/quotation marks punctuation english

Choose the option which correctly punctuates the sentence:

Peter said to John, Will you help me make dinner?"

  1. "Peter said to John, will you help me make dinner?"

  2. Peter said to John, "Will you help me make dinner"?

  3. Peter said to John, "Will you help me make dinner?"

  4. NO CHANGE
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C Correct answer
Explanation
Quotation marks are used to indicate material that is being reproduced word for word.  According to general rule, commas and periods that are part of the original sentence go inside the quotation marks, even though they are not part of the original quotation. Thus, the correct answer should be Option C.
Option A and D are incorrect. Quotation marks end when the direct speech ends and starts when the direct speech begins.
Option B is incorrect as, punctuations that are part of the speech go inside the quotation marks.
Multiple choice inverted commas/quotation marks punctuation english

Choose the option which correctly punctuates the sentence:

"I want to buy some new shirts," Christina said to her mother.

  1. "I want to buy some new shirts, Christina said to her mother."

  2. I want to buy some new shirts, Christina said to her mother.

  3. "I want to buy some new shirts", Christina said to her mother.

  4. NO CHANGE
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D Correct answer
Explanation
Quotation marks are used to indicate material that is being reproduced word for word.  According to general rule, commas and periods that are part of the original sentence go inside the quotation marks, even though they are not part of the original quotation. Thus, the correct answer should be Option D, no change.
Option B is incorrect because the speech is not enclosed within quotation marks.
Option A is incorrect because quotation marks end when the direct speech ends and starts when the direct speech begins.
Option C is incorrect as, the punctuation that are part of the original sentence go inside the quoted text.
Multiple choice inverted commas/quotation marks punctuation english

Choose the option which correctly punctuates the sentence:

"Come into my parlour, said the spider to the fly."

  1. NO CHANGE

  2. Come into my parlour, said the spider to the fly.

  3. "Come into my parlour," said the spider to the fly.

  4. "Come into my parlour" said the spider to the fly.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Quotation marks are used to indicate material that is being reproduced word for word.  According to general rule, commas and periods that are part of the original sentence go inside the quotation marks, even though they are not part of the original quotation. Thus, the correct answer should be Option C.
Option A is incorrect because quotation marks end when the direct speech ends and starts when the direct speech begins.
Option B is incorrect because the speech is not enclosed within quotation marks.
Option D does not contain all the punctuations required in a quoted text.
Multiple choice inverted commas/quotation marks punctuation english

Choose the option which correctly punctuates the sentence:

"I am coming to your party," Mary told Helen.

  1. I am coming to your party, Mary told Helen.

  2. "I am coming to your party", Mary told Helen.

  3. I am coming to your party, "Mary told Helen."

  4. No Change
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Quotation marks are used to indicate material that is being reproduced word for word.  According to general rule, commas and periods that are part of the original sentence go inside the quotation marks, even though they are not part of the original quotation. Thus, the correct answer should be Option D, no change.
Option A is incorrect because the speech is not enclosed within quotation marks.
Option B is incorrect as, the punctuations that are part of the quoted text go inside the quotation marks.
Option C is incorrect as it includes the indirect speech within quotation marks in place of the direct speech.