Form 14: Editing and Proofreading Punctuation Exercise

Form 14: Editing and Proofreading Punctuation

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Form 14: Editing and Proofreading Punctuation

Apply proofreading skills to identify and correct errors involving hyphens, dashes, and ellipses. Practice editing sentences for punctuation accuracy.

Questions

  1. MultiChoice

    Which error appears in: 'The runner was a world class athlete'?

  2. MultiChoice

    Which error appears in: 'Please read pages 10-20 for homework'?

  3. MultiChoice

    Fix the punctuation error in: 'The winner.. a talented artist.. received the trophy.'

  4. MultiChoice

    Which sentence is correctly edited?

  5. MultiChoice

    Find the correctly edited version: 'We met from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.'

  6. MultiChoice

    Which sentence uses the hyphen correctly in a compound word?

  7. MultiChoice

    Correct this sentence: 'The team won twenty one games this season.'

  8. MultiChoice

    Which sentence correctly sets off an appositive with em dashes?

  9. MultiChoice

    Choose the correctly proofread sentence containing an omitted phrase quote.

  10. MultiChoice

    Which sentence contains NO punctuation errors?

  11. MultiChoice

    Fix the error in: 'The high-speed train is very high-speed.'

  12. MultiChoice

    Identify the sentence that correctly replaces an incorrect hyphen with an em dash.