Joint Ownership

These frames have no pictures. The words above the frames tell what the pictures should be. Decide if the people in the pictures own an item together or if each person owns something separately. Then draw the picture. Add ’s where it belongs in the caption under each picture.

Contractions

  1. Were not Weren’t
  2. I am I’m
  3. Does not Doesn’t
  4. We will We’ll
  5. Do not Don’t
  6. You are You’re
  7. Cannot Can’t
  8. I have I’ve
  9. Would not Wouldn’t
  10. She would She’d

Quotation Marks

Rewrite the sentences using correct punctuation and capitalization.

  1. Get in the office called Mr. James.
  2. Wilbur thought for a moment and then said I give up.
  3. We’ll have squid Judy said and juice.
  4. Will you meet me at Mosaic Stadium Mr. Hagel asked.
  5. Mrs. Babki inquired Could you bring me a loaf of bread, a jug of milk, and seventy chocolate bars?
  6. I will reduce your class time Ms. Rumer proclaimed and give everyone free ice cream on Fridays!
  7. Ms Colby and Mr. Malcolm can sing Metallica announced Mr. Arvay. They will open Rock Show.
  8. Underline all the words you don’t know in the poem When Cats Bark from the book Animal Poetry.
  9. That easy test the teacher promised had 100 hard questions!
  1. “Get in the office!” called Mr. James.
  2. Wilbur thought for a moment and then said, “I give up.”
  3. “We’ll have squid,” Judy said, “and juice.”
  4. “Will you meet me at Mosaic Stadium?” Mr. Hagel asked.
  5. Mrs. Babki inquired, “Could you bring me a loaf of bread, a jug of milk, and seventy chocolate bars?”
  6. “I will reduce your class time,” Ms. Rumer proclaimed, “and give everyone free ice cream on Fridays!”
  7. “MsColbey and Mr. Malcolm can sing Metallica,” announced Mr. Arvay. “They will open Rock Show.”
  8. Underline all the words you don`t know in the poem “When Cats Bark” from the book Animal Poetry.
  9. That “easy” test the teacher promised had 100 hard questions!

Write what kind of punctuation to use for each situation.

Underline or Italics / 1. For titles of books, movies, or TV programs
Apostrophe / 2. To show ownership
Quotation Marks / 3. To identify a person’s exact words
Underline or Italics / 4. For titles of newspapers or magazines
Apostrophes / 5. To replace missing letters in a contraction
Quotation Marks / 7. For titles of short stories, articles, and poems
Hyphen / 8. Between compound numbers


Name That Punctuation

Write the kind of punctuation to use for each situation.

Comma / 1. To separate street, town, province or state, and country
Colon / 2. To separate hours and minutes
Semicolon / 3. To separate independent clauses not joined by and, but, or or
Semicolon / 4. To separate items in a series that contain commas
Colon / 5. To introduce a list of items
Comma / 6. After the greeting in a friendly letter
Comma / 7. To separate nonessential clauses
Comma / 8. To separate items in a series
Comma / 9. To separate the date and year


Parentheses

Add parenthesis where necessary.

  1. She got up early to go shopping (the sales were on).
  2. She went with Anne (her best friend) and the lady next door.
  3. It took ages to get home (there was a bus strike), and they returned exhausted.

Dashes, Parentheses, Ellipses...