Punctuation Revision (Y7)

___ perched on the edge of a wobbly metal chair, cutoff shorts touching the smallest possible strip of a once-blue fabric seat.

Which of the following should go in the gap in the above sentence?

A white time stamp at the bottom of the screen notes that ___ August 5, 9:02 pm.

Which of the following should go in the gap in the above sentence?

Detective ___ words have a jagged edge, chiseled from stone, then left raw.

Which of the following should go in the gap in the above sentence?

The four ___ answers differed.

Which of the following should go in the gap in the above sentence?

The camera pans up from a long crack in the linoleum floor to rest on the hunched over frame of a girl.

Which words should be hyphenated in the sentence above?

Mid century modern is a rapidly fading trend.

Which words should be hyphenated in the sentence above?

Which of the following correctly uses brackets?

Which of the following does not correctly use brackets?

She stabs her finger at a conversation from December two messages from Zoe Spanos dated 12/10 and 12/28.

Between which words should a dash be used?

“Maybe I thought it’s what she would have wanted. Maybe”

Between which words should a dash be used?

Anna says. "Here, it’s probably easier if I" She looks up to Detective Holloway for permission.

Between which words should a ellipsis be used?

Poirot uses a range of tools to solve the crime observation, individualised interview strategies and deduction.

Between which words should a colon be used?

At the scene of the crime, Poirot discovers a range of clues a pipe cleaner, a handkerchief, a gun, a pocket-watch and a burnt fragment of paper.

Between which words should a colon be used?

It is not easy to bribe the English they are so unapproachable.

Between which words should a semi-colon be used?

There is no evidence to support this we have only Hardman’s word for it.

Between which words should a semi-colon be used?