Colons and semicolons - 01

Periods, question marks, and exclamation points are
Terminal markers
Used to connect sentences
The punctuation mark used to connect closely related independent clauses is
A colon
A semicolon
A comma
A period
Check all the sentences that are true:
Serial semicolons are always followed irrespective of serial comma style
Serial semicolons are followed in US English
Serial semicolons are used when semicolons are used to separate items in a list
Serial semicolons should never be followed
With simple lists, we use ________________; with lists within lists, we use _____________.
Semicolons; colons
Semicolons; commas
Commas; semicolons
Commas; commas
"Therefore", "Consequently", "However", and so on are called
Adverbial conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
Conjunctival adverbs
Between a dependent clause and an independent clause, we use
Colons
Semicolons
Commas
No punctuation
In general, semicolons are used to connect
Two independent clauses
A dependent clause and an independent clause
To introduce a list
Two closely related independent clauses
Between a subject and a verb, we can use
A colon
A semicolon
A comma
No punctuation
The clause following a semicolon is
Capitalized only when the clause begins with a proper noun
Capitalized always
Never capitalized
Check all that is/are true.
Semicolons always go inside the quotation marks
Semicolons always fall outside of the quotation marks
Placing of semicolons with quotation marks is dependent on the completeness of the quoted text
None of the above
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