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| 1 | Members of the debate team are Mike S. White, sophomore; Pat D. Jones, junior; and Peg E. Dow, senior. |
 | A) | All of the punctuation in the example is correct. |
| B) | The sentence contains two punctuation errors. |
| C) | Neither answer A nor B is correct. |
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| 2 | Team members are: Ron S. White, Betty J. Randolph, Fred E. Bentley, and Carole R. Johnson. |
| A) | The comma used after Bentley is unnecessary. |
| B) | The colon after are and the comma after Bentley are unnecessary. |
| C) | The sentence contains no punctuation errors. |
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| 3 | "Our employees did one days work in the newsroom and expected 10 days pay for their efforts," the supervisor complained. |
| A) | An apostrophe is needed before the s in both one day's and 10 day's. |
| B) | An apostrophe is needed after the s in both one days' and 10 days'. |
| C) | An apostrophe is needed before the s in one day's and after the s in 10 days'. |
| D) | Neither answer A, B, nor C is correct. |
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| 4 | The three alarm fire destroyed two buildings. |
| A) | A hyphen is needed after three and another hyphen is needed after alarm to form a compound adjective. |
| B) | A hyphen is needed after three to form a compound adjective. |
| C) | Using a hyphen after any word in this sentence would be wrong. |
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| 5 | The president of the Senate said, "I will retire at the end of my term." |
| A) | The sentence needs a period before the quotation mark used with term. |
| B) | The sentence needs a period after the quotation mark used with term. |
| C) | The sentence should end with a period and both quotation marks should be eliminated. |
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| 6 | Club members, who range in age from 21 to 90, meet each Tuesday. |
| A) | The commas before who and after 90 are used correctly to show that the dependent clause is nonessential. |
| B) | The commas are used unnecessarily because the clause is essential. |
| C) | Neither answer A nor B is correct. |
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| 7 | "Injuries have been our major problem," the coach said. |
| A) | The comma after problem is used correctly to separate the statement from the attribution. |
| B) | No comma is necessary after problem. |
| C) | Neither answer A nor B is correct. |
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| 8 | The president said he will submit another proposal to the Board of Trustees he said he hopes the board will accept it. |
| A) | A comma is needed after Trustees to separate the two independent clauses. (Also capitalize the first letter of He.) |
| B) | A period is needed after Trustees to separate the two independent clauses. |
| C) | A hyphen is needed after Trustees to separate the two independent clauses. |
| D) | Neither answer A, B, nor C is correct. |
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| 9 | The Midway City Council meeting, Monday, lasted three hours. |
| A) | The commas before and after Monday are needed to separate an appositive from the rest of the sentence. |
| B) | Only the comma after Monday is needed. |
| C) | Neither answer A nor B is correct. |
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| 10 | The candidates' plane was grounded in Pittsburgh by a bomb scare; therefore, his trip had to be delayed. |
| A) | The apostrophe after candidates' is used correctly to show possession. |
| B) | The apostrophe should come before the s instead of after it. |
| C) | No apostrophe is needed in this example. |
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| 11 | Would you accept his statement that he "always conscientiously supported the bill |
| A) | The sentence should end with a question mark followed by quotation marks (?"). |
| B) | The sentence should end with quotation marks followed by a question mark ("?). |
| C) | Neither answer A nor B is correct. |
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| 12 | The convention in Johnson City Texas was considered a success. |
| A) | A comma is needed between City and Texas. |
| B) | A comma is needed between City and Texas and another comma is needed between Texas and was. |
| C) | The sentence needs no comma. |
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| 13 | "Will you please design the advertisement?" she asked. |
| A) | A comma is needed after the question mark to separate the quotation from the attribution. |
| B) | A comma is needed before the question mark to separate the quotation from the attribution. |
| C) | No comma is needed in the sentence. |
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| 14 | The newspaper editor admitted that the inaccurate story was "railroaded" (placed in the paper on deadline without before being properly checked) |
| A) | The sentence should end with the period placed inside the parenthesis. |
| B) | The sentence should end with the period placed outside the parenthesis. |
| C) | A sentence should never end with a parenthesis. |
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| 15 | Juan and Johns public relations company was formed 10 years after they graduated from Acme University's School of Journalism and Mass Communications. |
| A) | Change Juan and Johns to Juan's and John's to show they both own the same company. |
| B) | Change Juan and Johns to Juan and John's to show they both own the same company. |
| C) | The sentence is correct. Make no changes. |
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| 16 | After landing the biggest advertising contract of her career, the employee shouted, _________. |
| A) | "Fantastic!". |
| B) | "Fantastic!" |
| C) | "Fantastic"! |
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| 17 | __________________ the public relations staff members congratulated themselves. |
| A) | After meeting their deadline |
| B) | After meeting their deadline, |
| C) | After meeting their deadline; |
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| 18 | Mario L. ___________ died today following a long illness. |
| A) | Lombardo, 78 |
| B) | Lombardo 78, |
| C) | Lombardo, 78, |
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| 19 | "I have no doubt that I will win ___________ she said. |
| A) | re-election," |
| B) | re-election", |
| C) | re-election" |
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| 20 | The next conference will be in Dallas ___________ if there is no need for a meeting before then. |
| A) | July 15, 2007 |
| B) | July 15 2007, |
| C) | July 15, 2007, |