Choose the best answer for each question
Which is correct?
- "Come in!" He shouted.
- "Come in!" he shouted.
- "Come in!", he shouted.
Which is NOT correct?
- I was feeling uncomfortable, the rain was running down my neck.
- I was feeling uncomfortable; the rain was running down my neck.
- I was feeling uncomfortable. The rain was running down my neck.
Why is this not correct: She came into the house, but they will be leaving it soon.?
- The two clauses are grammatically too dissimilar to be separated by a comma.
- The two clauses are
semantically too dissimilar to be separated by a comma.
- There are two stand-alone clauses and they can never be separated by a comma.
Why is this not correct: The car seemed old, and slow.?
- Because the verb seem has been elided from the second part.
- Because you can't have a comma before and in any list.
- Because classifiers can't be separated with commas.
In this sentence: The butcher, the man over there with the cigar, has just won a fortune. the parts separated by commas are ...
- in apposition
- in opposition
- in a list
- in a reduced relative clause