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Parenthetical Expression Quiz

The document is a 10 question quiz about identifying and punctuating parenthetical expressions in sentences. Parenthetical expressions add supplementary details to sentences without changing their essential structure or meaning, and sentences containing parenthetical expressions will still make sense if the parenthetical is removed. The quiz questions test identifying parenthetical expressions and the punctuation used to set them apart, such as commas, dashes, or brackets.

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Parenthetical Expression Quiz

The document is a 10 question quiz about identifying and punctuating parenthetical expressions in sentences. Parenthetical expressions add supplementary details to sentences without changing their essential structure or meaning, and sentences containing parenthetical expressions will still make sense if the parenthetical is removed. The quiz questions test identifying parenthetical expressions and the punctuation used to set them apart, such as commas, dashes, or brackets.

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Parenthetical Expression Quiz

You can do this quiz online or print it on paper. It covers grammar and
punctuation explained on our Parenthetical Expression page.

1. A parenthetical expression is a word or words that

add details to a sentence


are essential to a sentence

2. A parenthetical expression doesn’t change a sentence’s basic

punctuation or length
structure or meaning

3. If a parenthetical expression is cut from a sentence, the sentence

won’t make sense


will still make sense

4. "Global temperatures, as expected, are rising." The parenthetical


expression is

as expected
are rising

5. In Question 4 above, which shows where the parenthetic begins and ends?

a set of quotation marks


a pair of commas

6. Which can separate a mid-sentence parenthetic from the rest of a


sentence?

commas, round brackets or long dashes


commas, semi-colons or quotation marks

7. Which sentence includes a parenthetical expression?


The traffic’s terrible, as usual.
It isn’t always this bad, is it?

8. "She likes him very much – or so it seems." Which is the parenthetical


expression?

very much
or so it seems

9. Which includes a correctly-punctuated parenthetical expression?

Rock music (or rock-n-roll) began in America.


Rock music, or rock-n-roll – began in America.

10. "Trump – as we all now know – won the election." Without the parenthetic,
the sentence is

as we all now know


Trump won the election

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