Study your punctuation skills in this revision quiz. Here is your chance to put all of your punctuation skills into practice! Can you use commas, speech marks, colons, semicolons, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks and apostrophes? Of course you can! You've been learning punctuation for years and probably use it, or at least see examples of it, every day.
Did you know that many centuries ago, texts were written without any punctuation? When writing materials were scarce and therefore very precious, words were often written even without any spaces between them. Can you imagine how hard it would be to read such writing? itwouldlookalittlebitlikethis.After some time, people began using a mark a little bit like a full stop, placing it between each word (although it was placed not on the line, but a little higher). So.that.looked.something.like.this. Writing continued developing, with people adding more and more complex ways of punctuating, always with the purpose of making meaning clear.
Practise your punctuation with this quiz.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Punctuation
"It's" is a contraction of "it is"
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"Where is your scarf?" is a question
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"Here is your lunch" is enclosed in speech marks because the sentence is being said
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Remember the apostrophe in "isn't"!
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All sentences should end in one of these forms of punctuation: a full stop, exclamation mark or question mark
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"Where did you put that chocolate?" is a question, of course
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"What time is it?" should end in a question mark to show that it is a question
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The comma separates the subject matter of the question from its interrogative phrasing, "aren't they". This sentence could also be written as: "Aren't they bringing their bikes?"
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The apostrophe should follow the plural noun "boys"
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"Isn't" is a contraction of "is not": "Is she not the eldest girl in the family?"
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