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Identify which one of the following sentences contains a punctuation error. Select “No Errors” if none of the sentences contains a punctuation error.

No Errors

Please don’t release any confetti until the party starts; we don't want to spoil the surprise!

The teacher told me “to go work on my homework” until recess.

“What am I supposed to do now?” Sasha asked.

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Identify which one of the following sentences contains a punctuation error. Select “No Errors” if none of the sentences contains a punctuation error.

No Errors

Please don’t release any confetti until the party starts; we don't want to spoil the surprise!

The teacher told me “to go work on my homework” until recess.

“What am I supposed to do now?” Sasha asked.

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Identify which one of the following sentences contains a punctuation error. Select “No Errors” if none of the sentences contains a punctuation error.

Your answer:

No Errors

Your answer:

Please don’t release any confetti until the party starts; we don't want to spoil the surprise!

Your answer:

“What am I supposed to do now?” Sasha asked.

Correct answer:

The teacher told me “to go work on my homework” until recess.

Explanation:

The sentence that contains the incorrect punctuation is shown below.

The teacher told me “to go work on my homework” until recess.

In this sentence, double quotation marks are incorrectly used to convey indirect speech. Indirect speech is any instance where what someone said is conveyed without being directly quoted. Consider the following correctly-punctuated sentence:

Samantha told me that she would be getting a kitten this weekend.

We do not need to use any quotation marks because we are not being told exactly what Samantha said to the speaker. She could have said "I'm getting a kitten this weekend!" or "I'm so excited that this weekend I'm going to be getting a kitten!", etc. The exact words that someone told someone else are conveyed using direct quotation, which requires double quotation marks, as demonstrated in the following sentence:

Samantha told me, "I can't concentrate today because I'm so excited—my family is adopting a kitten this weekend!"

In this sentence, the speaker is conveying Samantha's exact words, so we need to surround them with double quotation marks to set them apart from the rest of the sentence.

The correctly punctuated version of the correct answer choice sentence is as follows:

The teacher told me to go work on my homework until recess.

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[1] The Boston Tea Party was a protest that occurred in Boston during the buildup to the American Revolution. [2] The event was provoked by a period of tense relations between Britain and the British colonies that would eventually become the United States. [3] The colonists were angry that they had to pay taxes on items they imported from Britain, like tea, without having representatives in British government to voice their opinions and vote on whether or not to levy such taxes. [4] This was the issue summarized by the now-famous phrase, “No taxation without representation.” [5] If people don’t pay their taxes today, it is a crime called tax evasion, and they can get in big trouble with the government and go to jail. [6] Taxed tea was sent back to Britain in many colonies as a form of protest, but in Boston, the Governor refused to return the tea. [7] In response, Bostonians boarded a ship carrying taxable tea and dumped it into the harbor on December 16th, 1773. [8] Britain responded by tightening control of the colonies, but eventually, the country fought its colonies directly in the American Revolution after they declared independence.

Which of the following sentences would best conclude the paragraph?

The Governor must have been really mad when his citizens dumped all that tea in the harbor!

In countries all over the world, people have developed different culturally significant ways of brewing and serving tea.

It’s important to study patterns in history, not just individual events.

Events like the Boston Tea Party are important on their own, but take on extra significance when viewed as part of the chain of events that led to a revolution.

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Which of the following sentences would best conclude the paragraph?

Your answer:

The Governor must have been really mad when his citizens dumped all that tea in the harbor!

Your answer:

In countries all over the world, people have developed different culturally significant ways of brewing and serving tea.

Your answer:

It’s important to study patterns in history, not just individual events.

Correct answer:

Events like the Boston Tea Party are important on their own, but take on extra significance when viewed as part of the chain of events that led to a revolution.

Explanation:

The sentence that would best conclude this paragraph is "Events like the Boston Tea Party are important on their own, but take on extra significance when viewed as part of the chain of events that led to a revolution." The paragraph as a whole discusses the causes and effects of the Boston Tea Party. The last sentence in the paragraph as it's presented focuses on how the Boston Tea Party was one of the causes of and events leading up to the American Revolution.

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