Comma Quiz. Grade 8 English 2018
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Name: ___________________
Eating carrots pumpkins and sweet potatoes will give you lots of vitamin A.
2. Where you go what you do and why you do it is completely up to you.
3. I would like some pickles and tomatoes on my hamburger.
4. My kind generous mother drove me to school today.
5. Will’s dark red t-shirt was an omen of passionate political debate.
6. Study hard for your math test or you will most certainly fail.
7. Stacey rode her bike and walked her dog after school.
8. Michael studied hard but he forgot to study the right material.
9. Oliver travelled to Morocco then to Mozambique.
10. The girls and the boys did their very best on the comma quiz.
11. As though Tyler were magical he floated away on a gold carpet.
12. Ethan floated away on a gold carpet as though he were magical.
13. Xavier the boy with a yellow hoodie is sitting in the front row.
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The underlined part of the sentence above is called an
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15. Shyane for example is a girl with a good imagination.
16. A teacher who tirelessly marks night after night is bound to snap.
Rewrite these sentences correctly below.
1.
When she was done, her phone started to ring, she looked to see who was
calling.
2.
One night in Dawson city. A 13 year old boy named Arby, went to the pool with his
friends to watch a movie.
Comma Quiz. Grade 8 English 2018
Name: ___________________
3. Next to the barn there was a big corn field, in that cornfield was a terrifying crow.
4. Rewrite sentence below using paragraph indentation and quotation marks etc.
Begin as though you are starting a new paragraph. /10
Sam saw a ghost with black hair. The ghost said good luck finding your little
friend At this point, Sam nearly fainted. I promise I will not tell anyone about
you she whispered I will take your secret to my grave
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5. Name these punctuation marks in English
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my dog’s breath
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