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
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MultiChoice
Which error appears in: 'The runner was a world class athlete'?
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Which error appears in: 'Please read pages 10-20 for homework'?
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Fix the punctuation error in: 'The winner.. a talented artist.. received the trophy.'
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MultiChoice
Which sentence is correctly edited?
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Find the correctly edited version: 'We met from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.'
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MultiChoice
Which sentence uses the hyphen correctly in a compound word?
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Correct this sentence: 'The team won twenty one games this season.'
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MultiChoice
Which sentence correctly sets off an appositive with em dashes?
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MultiChoice
Choose the correctly proofread sentence containing an omitted phrase quote.
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Which sentence contains NO punctuation errors?
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Fix the error in: 'The high-speed train is very high-speed.'
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Identify the sentence that correctly replaces an incorrect hyphen with an em dash.