Matching Pairs Sentence Level ExcersiseOnline version Can you place the correct punctuation in the corresponding places? by Lauren Winn 1 Bad ellipses 2 When should you use commas? 3 Th librarian's primary interest drew him into the college library __ love for books and a quest for knowledge 4 The well __ known doctor received recognition for his work __ he was able to perform heart surgery on an elephant. 5 Alex gave her cat a bath __even though her cat hates bubbles __ every Tuesday to clean her cat of fleas. 6 What does parenthesis ( ) do? 7 What can a colon do? 8 When are commas used? 9 What is a "no - no" of ellipses(...)? 10 What does a dash( --) do? 11 What does quotation marks ( " ") do in a sentence? 12 She would have loved to go to that concert __ but she had too much homework to do. , interprets a thought in a more dramatic way : FANBOYS "...Jesus wept" Bible John 11:35 - and ; using it in the beginning or the ending of a quotation Gives credit to the original author and avoid plagiarism; enclosed titles of short works and appears in pairs. ( ) Before nonrestrictive adverbial phrases add extra information introduces a direct quotation