Lesson T2.3.3
T2.3.3 Accurate grammar, punctuation and spelling Quiz: KS3 English, Unit 2
20 questions
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The 20 questions
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Which punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list?
- Comma
- Colon
- Hyphen
- Apostrophe
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Which punctuation mark shows plural possession correctly for 'children'?
- Apostrophe before s
- Apostrophe after s
- Hyphen
- Colon
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Which is the correct spelling of the word meaning 'not able to be stopped'?
- unstopable
- unstoppible
- unstoppable
- unstoppeable
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Which spelling is the correct possessive form without an apostrophe?
- Its
- It's
- Its'
- Itt's
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Which word is spelled correctly?
- necessary
- necessery
- necesary
- neccessary
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Which punctuation mark must always end a direct question?
- Question mark
- Full stop
- Exclamation mark
- Comma
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What error occurs when two independent clauses are joined by only a comma?
- Comma splice
- Fragment
- Run-on sentence
- Misplaced modifier
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Which punctuation mark correctly joins two closely related independent clauses?
- Hyphen
- Semicolon
- Colon
- Comma
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Which punctuation mark is used to introduce an explanation or a list?
- Semicolon
- Colon
- Apostrophe
- Hyphen
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Which spelling correctly applies the rule 'i before e except after c'?
- receive
- receeve
- reciev
- recieve
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What grammatical error is present in 'The pupils in the class is ready'?
- Tense shift
- Misplaced modifier
- Comma splice
- Subject-verb agreement
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Which punctuation mark is correctly used in pairs to enclose extra information?
- Apostrophes
- Colons
- Semicolons
- Dashes
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Which spelling of this common word is correct?
- definetly
- definitely
- definately
- defintely
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Which type of word requires a capital letter in 'Last Tuesday, Amira visited London'?
- Collective noun
- Common noun
- Abstract noun
- Proper noun
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What type of word is 'your' in the phrase 'your coat'?
- Personal pronoun
- Contraction
- Possessive determiner
- Auxiliary verb
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Which punctuation mark correctly ends a standard declarative sentence?
- Exclamation mark
- Semicolon
- Full stop
- Question mark
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Which word is spelled correctly as a plural?
- churchies
- churches
- churchess
- churchs
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What error occurs when a modifying phrase is too far from the word it describes?
- Comma splice
- Passive voice
- Tense error
- Misplaced modifier
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What is the correct irregular past tense form of the verb 'go'?
- Going
- Gone
- Went
- Goed
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Which punctuation mark is used to link compound adjectives before a noun?
- Apostrophe
- Slash
- Colon
- Hyphen
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