Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

Minus Snakes
Italics
Punctuation and capitalization

This is the only major land mass in the world where there are no snakes. What is it?

To answer the question, read each sentence below and find the missing punctuation mark. Choose your answers from the choices listed after the sentences. Write the letter of each answer in the space above its sentence number at the bottom of the page. Not all of the answers will be used. Some of the answers will be used more than once.

1. Snakes are reptiles and they frighten many people.

2. Snakes are coldblooded creatures.

3. A snakes body is covered with scales.

4. “Do you know how many kinds of snakes there are” asked Melissa.

5. There are about twenty-five hundred, said Harrison.

6. “I never knew there were so many” said Melissa.

7. “Snakes are found in most parts of the world, said Harrison

8. “Theres a show about snakes on TV tonight,” he said.

9. “A good book to read is Snakes Around the World,” Harrison said.

10. I don’t like snakes,” said Melissa.

Answers

A. Quotation Marks

N. Question Mark

T. Comma

E. Colon

I. Italics

M. Exclamation Point

R. Hyphen

C. Apostrophe

O. Period