Section A: Insert dashes into these sentences.
1. Some people my sister, for example are hard to understand.
2. The two guys down the hall Jeff and Bill started a new company.
3. I heard a noise it was really loud up in the attic.
4. Maybe you’d like some iced tea hey, look out!
Section B: Put parentheses around the words in each sentence that are not very important.
5. I had good intentions of being on time just like always but I didn’t make it.
6. Wouldn’t you know that on game day of course it has to be raining?
7. I’m going out for dinner with Jim he’s my youngest brother when he comes home on winter break.
8. My mom who’s the best mom in the world bought me tickets for the Winter Carnival Concert.
Section C: Put quotation marks where they are needed.
9. Mom said, It’s time for dinner.
10. Walt Whitman wrote a poem called O Captain! My Captain.
11. My dad always said, Money can’t buy happiness.
12. It’s time to stop talking the teacher warned.
Section D: Decide if each bolded title should have quotation marks or be italicized.
13. The movie Vertigo is a classic thriller.
14. I enjoyed the short story After Twenty Years by O. Henry.
15. Jeopardy is a challenging but fun television show.
Answers: 1. -my sister, for example- 2. -Jeff and Bill- 3. -it was really loud- 4. -hey, look out! 5. (just like always)
6. (of course) 7. (he’s my youngest brother) 8. (who’s the best mom in the world) 9″It’s time for dinner.” 10. “O Captain! My Captain!” 11. “Money can’t buy happiness.” 12. “It’s time to stop talking,” 13. Vertigo 14. “After Twenty Years” 15. Jeopardy