Apostrophe Quiz

Apostrophe Quiz                                                      INDEX

Print this page and put apostrophes in the appropriate places in the following paragraph:
Miss Sweetcakes was one of those ladies who knew what she wanted out of life. When she found that McLintock had been two-timing her, she dropped him like last weeks mashed potatoes. She was more interested in Professor Aristotle Mongoose. Among Mongooses admirable qualities were a dapper mustache, a scintillating wit, and a love of chocolate tidbits. Miss Sweetcakes and Professor Mongoose never ran out of topics for conversation. They could always discuss their passions for chocolate and for each other. Mongoose was always singing loves old sweet songs to her. His idea of a great date involved a triple chocolate delight at Maudes House of Chocolate. His ideas and hers were the same on lots of things. In everyones eyes, Professor Mongoose and Miss Sweetcakes were soul mates.


ANSWERS

Words and phrases commonly confused or misused

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• accept, except
• adapt, adopt
• advice, advise
• affect, effectaffect, effect
• allude, elude
• alot
• alright
• among, between
• amount, number
• awhile, a while
• bad, badly
• compliment, complement
• defuse, diffuse
• delusion, illusion
• desperate, disparate
• discrete, discreet
• disinterested, uninterested
• eminent, immanent
• energize, enervate
• etymology, entomology
• evoke, invoke
• faze, phasefaze. phase
• fewer, less
• flair or flare
• hardy, hearty
• hopefully
• horde, hoard
• hyper or hypo?
• imply, infer
• ingenious, ingenuous
• its or it's?
• lie, lay
• loath,loathe
• loose, lose
• like or as
• martial or marital?
• peace, piece
• peak, pique, peek
• persecute, prosecute
• prescribe, proscribe
• principal, principle
• rein, reign
• rite, right
• sheer, shear
• sneak, snuck
• strait, straight
• there, they're, their
• supposed to
• than, then
• to or too
• torturous, tortuous
• unique
• verbal or oral?
• whose or who's?
• wreck or wreak?

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COMMAS

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Comma Rules

Commas with Introductory Expressions

Commas with Interrupters

Commas with Compound Sentences

Commas with Coordinating Conjunctions

Commas between Sentence Elements

Commas with Series and Conventions

Unnecessary Commas

Comma Quiz

Comma Quiz Answers

PUNCTUATION

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• 
  
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• 
  
• apostrophes
• colons
• commas
• minor punctuation marks
• quotations
• semicolons

Index

Index

• effective sentences
• mechanics
• parts of speech
• punctuation
• rules of grammar
• sentence problems
• sentence structure
• words often confused or misused

Instructions

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THE GRAMMAR DOCTOR is a work in progress. It will take a long time to get all the parts in place. So far we have the pages on commas and apostrophes and a few of the pages on words often confused or misused. We will keep adding new material every week.

a lot

"A lot" is always two words. Do not spell it as one word.

affect, effect

"Affect" is usually a verb meaning to influence. " Effect" is usually a noun meaning the result. (His new wealth did not affect his easy-going manner. The drop in the stock market had a serious effect on his holdings.) "Effect" can also be a verb meaning to bring about change. (The new department head effected sweeping changes in departmental policy.)