Demonstrate knowledge of the meaning and function of certain marks of punctuation, including colons, semi-colons, apostrophes, quotation marks, and commas. 0501.1.6

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1. Comma Confusion - after you have answered all ten multiple-choice questions, click on the submit button at the bottom of the quiz
2. Comma Use in a Series - Practice identifying correct comma use when given a list of items, Quia quiz in Battleship game format
3. Comma Quiz - ten multiple choice questions with immediate feedback
4. Comma Practice - Select sentence with correctly used commas
5. Comma Rules - review of comma rules followed by an eight-question multiple-choice quiz
6. Comma Usage: Enclosure - Read the following sentences carefully. Insert commas where they are necessary. 20 multiple choice questions on a Quia quiz
7. Comma Usage Quiz - Click on the letter that matches the correct answer. Click on the arrows to move between questions. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
8. Commas and Colons - Grammar Gold interactive quiz from Harcourt School, immediate feedback to your answers
9. Commas Galore - Quia quiz in the Rags to Riches format
10. Commas in Quotations - Read the directions and take the online quiz
11. Commas Quiz - ten multiple-choice questions from the Blue Book on Grammar and Punctuation
12. Going to Work With Commas Game - [Skillwise game] Can you spot the right place for the commas?
13. Keeping Fit - [Skillwise worksheet] An activity to practice adding commas to indicate extra information.
14. Photography - [Skillwise worksheet] An activity to practice adding commas to indicate extra information
15. Power Proofreading - Edit sentences with grammatical mistakes
16. Practice Comma Quiz - Choose the sentence with the correct comma usage from the set of sentences. Ten question quiz, each question is on a new page but you can select an option to see all questions on the same page.
17. Proofreading Makes Perfect - Correct these sentences by typing in correct grammar.
18. Quotation marks and commas - Online Quiz
19. Rules for Comma Usage - Eleven rules with examples from The Guide to Grammar and Writing
20. Snowman Builder - Build a family of snowmen as you review four different skills. Select the word below that completes the compound word.
21. Using Commas - [Skillwise factsheet] how to use commas
22. Using Commas in Lists - [Skillwise worksheet] exercise in the use of commas

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