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Click on the sentence that is punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | Prospective home buyers nervously read the newspaper headline: "Federal Reserve to Raise Interest Rates". |
| | B) | Prospective home buyers nervously read the newspaper headline: "Federal Reserve to Raise Interest
Rates." |
| | C) | Prospective home buyers nervously read the newspaper headline:
Federal Reserve to Raise Interest Rates. |
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Click on the sentence that is punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | "How can you write if you can't cry?" asked Ring Lardner. |
| | B) | "How can you write if you can't cry"? asked Ring Lardner. |
| | C) | How can you write if you can't cry? asked Ring Lardner. |
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Click on the sentence that is
punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | My sister advised me to read an article
entitled "E.T.'s Phone Bill" in a consumer magazine before choosing a long distance company. |
| | B) | My sister advised me to read an article entitled E.T.'s Phone Bill in a consumer magazine before choosing a long distance
company. |
| | C) | My sister advised me "to read an article entitled 'E.T.'s Phone
Bill' in a consumer magazine before choosing a long distance company." |
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Click on the sentence that is punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | Mirror, Mirror is a "Star Trek" episode based on the theory of parallel universes. |
| | B) | "Mirror, Mirror" is a Star Trek episode based on the theory of parallel
universes. |
| | C) | Mirror, Mirror is a StarTrek episode
based on the theory of parallel universes. |
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Click on the sentence that is punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | I didn't know what to say when the waiter snarled, "You'll have to leave, madam," but I didn't give him a
tip. |
| | B) | I didn't know what to say when the waiter snarled, "You'll have to
leave, madam", but I didn't give him a tip. |
| | C) | I didn't know what to say when
the waiter snarled, You'll have to leave, madam, but I didn't give him a tip. |
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Click on the sentence that is punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | For her first critical paper, Jane compared Emily Dickinson's poem "I Like to See It Lap the Miles" with Walt Whitman's "To a Locomotive in
Winter". |
| | B) | For her first critical paper, Jane compared Emily Dickinson's poem
"I Like to See It Lap the Miles" with Walt Whitman's "To a Locomotive in Winter." |
| | C) | For her first critical paper, Jane compared Emily Dickinson's poem I Like to See It Lap the Miles with Walt Whitman's To a Locomotive in
Winter. |
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Click on the sentence that is punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | I groaned when I read the headline in this morning's Post Dispatch: "Another Snowstorm
Targets the Northeast". |
| | B) | I groaned when I read the headline in this
morning's Post Dispatch: "Another Snowstorm Targets the Northeast." |
| | C) | I groaned when I read the headline in this morning's "Post Dispatch": 'Another Snowstorm Targets the Northeast.' |
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Click on the sentence that is punctuated
correctly. |
| | A) | The nation sighed when it read the headline "Hockey
Strike Ends". |
| | B) | The nation sighed when it read the headline Hockey Strike
Ends.' |
| | C) | The nation sighed when it read the headline "Hockey Strike
Ends." |
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Click on the sentence that is
punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | Larry said, "I agree with the eighteenth-
century proverb: "Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away." |
| | B) | Larry said, "I agree with the eighteenth-century proverb: 'Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.'" |
| | C) | Larry said, "I agree with the eighteenth-century proverb: 'Some have been thought brave because
they were afraid to run away'." |
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Click on the sentence that is punctuated
correctly. |
| | A) | "Who's a Bum?" read the headline of the Daily
News after the Dodgers won the 1955 World Series. |
| | B) | "Who's a
Bum?" read the headline of the Daily News after the Dodgers won the 1955 World Series. |
| | C) | 'Who's a Bum?' read the headline of the Daily News after the Dodgers won the 1955 World
Series. |
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Click on the sentence that is punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | The "worker's paradise" of North Korea is largely populated by "undernourished" labourers and their "emaciated" families. |
| | B) | The "worker's paradise" of North Korea is largely populated by undernourished labourers and their
emaciated families. |
| | C) | The "worker's paradise" of North Korea is largely
populated by undernourished labourers and their emaciated families. |
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Click on the sentence that is punctuated correctly. |
| | A) | After I dropped the stack of fine china, the restaurant manager looked down at me, sighed "Oh, no," and simply told me that "I was
fired." |
| | B) | After I dropped the stack of fine china, the restaurant manager
looked down at me, sighed "Oh, no", and simply told me that I was fired. |
| | C) | After I dropped the stack of fine china, the restaurant manager looked down at me, sighed "Oh, no," and simply told me that I was
fired. |
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