September 24, 2013
Trivia Tuesday: Happy National Punctuation Day!
Posted by Brenna Malmberg
So my friends, it appears that hiking trivia was a bit too difficult last week. We had a tie for first between Max and Cole. That being said, they both only got four. Yikes! So perhaps a little grammar on National Punctuation Day goes better for everyone. And to any one who is doing this, thanks for sticking with me. There have been lots of posts lately because of Flat Brenna (which is awesome), but the daily blogs can get lost in there.
Good luck on this week's trivia, and don't forget to comment at the end on how you do.
1. What puncuation marks the omission of one or more letters in a word?
2. How do you correctly write the decade better known for the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and first selling frozen foods?
3. What is used to further explain or correct in quoted material?
4. When writing an ellipsis, what type of spacing is found around it?
5. Want to be declarative or abbreviate something? What should you use?
6. What should you use to link independent clauses not joined by a coordinating conjunction? (going all English on you for this one)
7. So, I'm a journalist, which means I like to quote people. What should I use to do that correctly?
8. What punctuation should used with compound modifiers?
9. Oh, so you knew No. 8; let's test it. Which is incorrect?
10. What day is National Punctuation Day?!
How did you do? Comment below on how you did! Thanks.
Cole
8/10, much better this week!