Response to the following multiple choice questions:
1. Which one of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
The cost, and size of computers are decreasing, almost as rapidly as processing power is increasing.
Database management systems were originally large, unwieldy, and difficult to use.
A factory closing means the community loses jobs tax revenues and retail sales.
An operating system is the set of instructions, that directs the overall operations of the computer.
2. Which one of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
A crisp, juicy apply a day keeps the doctor away.
She is wearing a new yellow dress, and looks clean and neat.
The sheikdom of Bahrain has a settled well-educated population.
The major economic powers include the United States Japan and Germany.
3. Which one of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
They became ill during the long severe winter.
They became ill during the long, and severe winter.
They became ill during the long, severe winter.
They became ill during the very, severe winter.
4. After which word in the following sentence should you place a comma?
All of us are very eager to see the presentation and we particularly look forward to the question period.
us
eager
presentation
question
5. Which one of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
No, he hasn't called on us either this month, or last month.
No he hasn't called on us either this month or last month.
No, he hasn't called, on us either this month or last month.
No, he hasn't called on us either this month or last month.
6. Which one of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
After he began the meeting, he said "I am going home."
After he began the meeting he said, "I am going home."
After he began the meeting, he said, "I am going home."
After he began the meeting he said "I am going home."
7. Which one of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
Little Rock, Arkansas, was the scene of tragedy and strife.
Little Rock, Arkansas, was the scene of tragedy, and strife.
Little Rock, Arkansas was the scene of tragedy and strife.
Little Rock, Arkansas, was the scene, of tragedy and strife.
8. Which one of the following dates is punctuated correctly?
March 2000
March, 2000
March; 2000
March 13 2000
9. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence?
Just what would you do, Cheryl, if the situation were reversed?
The sentence is correctly punctuated.
Remove the comma before Cheryl.
Remove the comma after Cheryl.
Replace the comma after Cheryl with a semicolon.
10. Which one of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
The new machine, which I haven't even learned to operate yet, is out of order.
The new machine, which I haven't even learned to operate yet is out of order.
The new machine which I haven't even learned to operate yet, is out of order.
The new machine which I haven't even learned, to operate yet, is out of order.
11. Which one of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
Did the novelist, Ernest Hemingway once live here?
Did the novelist, Ernest Hemingway, once live here?
Did the novelist, Ernest Hemingway, once live here.
Did the novelist Ernest Hemingway once live here?
12. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence?
Queen Mary wanted her death to be remembered, therefore, she staged a pageant.
Remove the comma after therefore.
Change the comma after remembered to a semicolon.
Change the comma after remembered to a semicolon and add a comma after Mary.
Remove the comma after remembered.
13. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence?
A first class employee is: dependable, loyal, and efficient.
Add a hyphen after first.
Replace the colon with a comma.
Remove the colon.
Remove the colon and add a hyphen after first.
14. When the expression the following appears in an independent clause, it suggests that a list will follow. What punctuation mark introduces a list?
A comma
A semicolon
A colon
A period
15. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence?
Do you know who said, "Genius is an immense capacity for hard work"?
The sentence is correctly punctuated.
Place the question mark inside the final quotation mark.
Change the comma to a colon.
Change the question mark to a period.
16. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence?
She whispered, "Are you sure you love me?"
The sentence is correctly punctuated.
Place the question mark outside the end quotation marks.
Remove the comma.
Place the question mark outside the end quotation marks and remove the comma.
17. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence?
Have you read the article entitled, "Increase Your Vocabulary?"
The sentence is correctly punctuated.
Remove the comma after entitled and place the question mark outside the end quotation marks.
Remove the comma after entitled.
Underline the title of the article.
18. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence?
The case against the Dallas based company was handled in Seattle.
The sentence is correctly punctuated.
Add a hyphen after Dallas and after based.
Add a hyphen after Dallas and a comma after company.
Add a hyphen after Dallas.
19. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence?
He took the womans hat and hid it in the men's room.
The sentence is correctly punctuated.
Change men's to mens'.
Change womans to woman's.
Change womans to womans'and men's to mens'.
20. When it requires de-emphasis, non-essential material in a sentence is set off by a:
period.
pair of parentheses.
comma.
colon.