I thought I have posted this quiz from the English grammar book Eats, Shoots and Leaves before, but could find no record of it in my archives, so here again is the link.
It tests you on the comma and the apostrophe, basically.
And on a related note, the Happy Husband answers the questions that I turn around and both answer and ask here...if you were a punctuation mark, which would you be?
" "
I would be the quotation marks, because they alone are able to corrall words of merit, wisdom, intellect, humor, and/or interest. I'd like to be the exclamation point, but honestly, I don't strive to be that consistently exciting. I also would like to be the question mark, but not because I'm enigmatic or oxymoronic. I'm inquisitive by nature, but I've learned that for every question mark I raise, God replies with a period.
April 20, 2005 11:25 AM