Common Grammar Mistakes and Spelling Tips Quiz
English multiple-choice grammar quiz about Common Grammar Mistakes and Spelling Tips
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Exclamation points should NOT be used when writing fiction.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
I would love to lie in the shade under a tree.
A. Correct
B. Incorrect
Which type of dash is used when you’re wrapping a hyphenated word onto the next line of text.
A. Em dash
B. En dash
C. Hyphen
D. Double hyphen
In American English, “while.“ is used more than “whilst”.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
These words modify verbs and often end in –ly.
A. Adjectives
B. Adverbs
C. Nouns
D. Proverbs
The teacher asked me to lay the books out on the table.
A. Correct
B. Incorrect
How many spaces go after a period?
A. One
B. Two
C. none
To signify a word within a sentence or state the title of a work, we use
A. double hyphens
B. quotation marks
C. parentheses
D. hyphens
Direct questions end with periods and indirect questions end with question marks.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Think fast…
A. could of
B. could have
In British English, single quotes are typically used.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
The only time an apostrophe is used to pluralize a noun is when the noun being pluralized is a lowercase letter.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Semicolon
A. :
B. ,
C. ;
D. {
The points where you’d pause in a spoken sentence aren’t always where you’d use a comma in a written sentence.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
For situations where you’re introducing information and need to give it some context or you have two directly related clauses and you want to emphasize the second one.
A. colon
B. semicolon