Section A: Decide which piece of stop punctuation is missing from each sentence below. Choose a period, question mark, exclamation point, or semicolon . ? ! ;
1. Today is the last day of the week
2. I’ll wash the dishes you can dry them.
3. What time are we going to Grandma’s house
4. I’m excited to see her new dog
5. Look out for the broken glass
6. Can you help me sweep up the pieces of glass
7. Every time it rains, we get to clean off the picnic table
8. I hope my car is repaired it’s no fun riding the bus.
Section B: Decide what is needed in each sentence below. Choose a comma, a semicolon, or nothing.
9. Some dogs are friendly some are not.
10. We have a game tomorrow and I can’t play.
11. I have to visit the dentist the foot doctor, and the car repair place.
12. The dog licked my hand and the hand of my sister.
13. I patted the dog but my sister just cried.
14. I like dogs she likes cats.
15. Summer is too hot winter is too cold.
16. The year always goes by too fast.
Answers: 1-period after week; 2-semicolon after dishes; 3-question mark after house; 4-exclamation point after dog; 5-exclamation point after glass; 6-question mark after glass; 7-period after table; 8-semicolon after repaired; 9- semicolon after friendly; 10-comma after tomorrow; 11-comma after dentist; 12-nothing; 13-comma after but; 14-semicolon after dogs; 15-semicolon after hot; 16-nothing.