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This document contains a quiz on written language conventions with multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions. The quiz covers topics such as punctuation, capitalization, possessives, plurals, and uses of quotation marks, italics, hyphens and other conventions. It contains questions about when to use certain punctuation and capitalization with things like titles, names, contractions and more. The quiz is designed to test a student's understanding of standard written English.

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Quiz 1 Written Language

This document contains a quiz on written language conventions with multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions. The quiz covers topics such as punctuation, capitalization, possessives, plurals, and uses of quotation marks, italics, hyphens and other conventions. It contains questions about when to use certain punctuation and capitalization with things like titles, names, contractions and more. The quiz is designed to test a student's understanding of standard written English.

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U. E.

Capilla de Cochabamba

QUIZ 1 – WRITTEN LANGUAGE


3rd TERM

Name: __________________________________ Grade: _________ Date: _____ Score:

I. Choose the correct answer (1p e/a)

apostrophe hyphen parentheses italics capitalization Quotation marks

1. What should be applied to foreign words when writing in English? __________________


2. What should be applied to contractions? __________________
3. What should be applied to unnecessary words?_____________________
4. What should be applied to fractions when written as words?_______________________
5. What is used between the prefix and some root words? __________________________
6. What should be applied to possessives? ____________________
7. What should be applied around numbers used to number a list in paragraphs? __________________
8. What should always be applied to direct speech? _____________________
9. What should be applied to most words within titles of historical documents? _____________________
10. What should be applied to the titles of songs or short stories? ___________________________
11. What should be applied to the names of ships, trains, and planes? ___________________________
12. What should be applied too words that are shortened or clipped in dialectal speech?
__________________
13. What should be applied to the names of continents? __________________
14. What should be applied between syllables when a word is split between two lines?
___________________

II. Select the correct sentence. (1p e/a)

15. _____ My forty year old aunt has been in twenty-five countries.
_____ My forty-year-old aunt has been in twenty-five countries.

16. _____ Jerry's beat-up-looking Ford has a custom-built engine.


_____ Jerry's beat-up looking Ford has a custom built engine.

17. _____ Her daughter-in-law's house had a make-yourself-at-home look.


_____ Her daughter-in-laws house had a make yourself at home look.

18. _____ His holier than thou attitude seemed rather unchristian.
_____ His holier-than-thou attitude seemed rather unchristian.

III. Place punctuation where needed. (There are 8 things to mark. 4points)

19. my sister the tall one took uncle George and aunt ruth to see life with father that was performed

by the roadside theather.

III. Circle the correct answer (1p e/a)

20. The plural possessive of child is: childrens’ children’s

21. The singular possessive of wolf is: wolf’s wolve’s

22. The plural of king is: kings king’s

23. The plural possessive of Thomas is: Thomas’ Thomases’

IV. Write the singular possessive, plural, and plural possessive of the given words. (0.5 p e/a)
24. tomato _________________ _______________ ______________
25. secretary _________________ _______________ ______________
26. monkey _________________ _______________ ______________
27. man _________________ _______________ ______________
IV. Select the correctly capitalized and punctuated sentence. (1p e/a)

28. _____ The Veldt, a short story by Ray Bradbury, is about an automated house.
_____ “The Veldt,” a short story by Ray Bradbury, is about an automated house.

29. _____ Jill screamed, “Its alive and breathing!”


_____ Jill screamed, “It’s alive and breathing!”

30. _____ My sister (the tall one) took Uncle George to the play at the Globe Theater.
_____ My sister, the tall one. took Uncle George to the play at the Globe theater.

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