Excercise


This exercise will let you practice identifying correct and incorrect semicolon use. Mark whether each sentence is correct or not. When you have finished the exercise, click on the Get Feedback button to see how you did.

1 I was unable to find the receipt for the defective blender; however, the store manager agreed to an exchange without too much arguing.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect
 
2 After he finishes speaking at our school, the senator is leaving on a campaign tour of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect
 
3 I have already packed the following items in the car; snacks, water, blankets, and cellular phone.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect
 
4 I know only the basics of building Web pages; even though my friends think I am some kind of wizard.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect
 
5 According to the forecasters, we were supposed to get snow all day long; I haven't seen a single flake, yet, though.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect
 
6 The echo of sirens among the downtown buildings confused us all; we were not sure where they were coming from.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect
 
7 There are many ingenious ways to use computers for personal communication; for example, Web-based greeting cards are becoming a popular way to send fun, animated messages to friends.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect
 
8 I want to keep active in my volunteer work, however; my new job just takes too much of my time.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect
 
9 The most popular items in the charity auction were a handmade quilt, created by the church's Women's Group; a year's worth of video rentals, donated by the Videos-To-Go store downtown; and twenty hours of computer consulting, provided by faculty members at the local technical college.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect
 
10 Paul walked around for days with a grin on his face; knowing he had the perfect internship lined up for the summer made the spring semester zoom by.
a)   Correct
b)   Incorrect


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