Mechanics and Editing Review

Punctuation

100

This end punctuation is missing from the following sentence: "Have you heard any of these songs before__"

What is a question mark?

200

This punctuation is missing from the following sentence (and is between this word and this word): "To be a good hockey player a person must be an excellent skater and a superb athlete."

What is a comma between "player" and "a"? "To be a good hockey player, a person must be an excellent skater and a superb athlete."

300

This punctuation mark could replace the comma splice in the following sentence: "Anime has caught on in this country, it is a Japanese style of animation."

What is a semicolon, period, or a comma AND a conjunction. "Anime has caught on in this country; it is a Japanese style of animation. "Anime has caught on in this country. It is a Japanese style of animation. "Anime has caught on in this country, but it is a Japanese style of animation.

400

This punctuation is missing from the following sentence (and it is between this word and this word): "Answer this question for me why aren't more people concerned about the environment?"

What is a colon between "me" and "why"? "Answer this question for me why aren't more people concerned about the environment?"

500

This punctuation is missing from the following sentence: "People's donations will fund this research research that could save many lives."

What is a dash? "People's donations will fund this research—research that could save many lives."

Capitalization

100

These words should be capitalized in the following sentence: "a nickname people often use when talking about the united states government is uncle sam."

What are "A", "United States" and "Uncle Sam"?

200

These words should be capitalized in the following sentence: "after that, she has science, math, gym, spanish, and english."

What are "After", "Spanish", and "English"?

300

These words should be capitalized in the following sentence: "the grand canyon is a large canyon just north of phoenix, arizona, which attracts thousands of tourists each summer."

What are "The Grand Canyon" and "Phoenix, Arizona"?

400

These words should be capitalized in the following sentence: "mom read the poem the road not taken by robert frost to me each night before bedtime."

What are "Mom", "The Road Not Taken", and "Robert Frost"?

500

These words should be capitalized in the following sentence: "engineers at general motors corporation changed the angle of the b-pillar on their new ford focus sedan"

What are "Engineers", General Motors Corporation", "B", "Ford Focus Sedan"?

Plurals

100

This is how you spell the plural version of "bubble".

What is "bubbles"?

200

This is how you spell the plural version of "echo".

What is "echoes"?

300

This is how you spell the plural version of "Secretary of State".

What is "Secretaries of State"?

400

This is how you spell the plural version of "thesis".

What is "theses"?

500

This is how you spell the plural version of "offspring".

What is "offspring"?

Sentences

100

The following is this type of sentence and should have this end punctuation: "Gertrude, go to your room right now"

What is "Imperative" with an exclamation point (!) at the end?

200

The following is this type of sentence and should have (if a needed) a comma between these two words: "I hate it when a boring song comes on Pandora and can't be skipped."

What is a "simple sentence" with no added punctuation?

300

These are the three ways you can join two independent clauses in a compound sentence.

What is  a semicolon, a comma + a FANBOY, or create two simple sentences by adding a period after the first independent clause and capitalizing the first letter of the first word of the second independent clause.

400

These are the four kinds of sentences.

What is Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory.

500

The following is an example of this type of sentence: "While we were driving to Denver, my mom started coughing so hard that she couldn't breathe, so my dad pulled the car over and called 911."

What is Compound-Complex

Using the Right Word

100

This word is the right word to use in the following sentence: "The use of calculators is not (allowed, aloud) during the final exam."

What is "allowed"?

200

This word is the right word to use in the following sentence: "When the team is (all together, altogether) in the locker room, the coach encourages to do their best."

What is "all together"?

300

These words are the right words to use in the following sentence, in this order: "(Their, There, They're) upset because (their, there, they're) dog got into the garbage over (their, there, they're)."

What is "They're", "their", and "there"?

400

These words are the right words to use in the following sentence, in this order: "The (whether, weather) will determine (whether, weather) I go fishing."

What is "weather" and "whether"?

500

These words are the right words to use in the following sentence, in this order: "The weather severely (affected, effected) the game but the goal had a huge (affect, effect) on the outcome of the match."

What is "affected" and "effect" ?