Capitalization and Punctuation Test for 7th Grade English with Answers

📚 Quick Study Guide

🔍 Capitalization Rules:
• ✍️ Capitalize the first word of a sentence.
• 🧑‍🏫 Capitalize proper nouns (names of people, places, organizations, etc.).
• 🗓️ Capitalize days of the week, months, and holidays.
• 📚 Capitalize titles of books, movies, and songs.

💡 Punctuation Rules:
• 🛑 Use a period at the end of a statement.
• ❓ Use a question mark at the end of a question.
• ❗ Use an exclamation point to show strong emotion.
• ✍️ Use commas to separate items in a list, before conjunctions in compound sentences, and after introductory phrases.
• 💬 Use quotation marks to enclose direct quotations.
• Apostrophes show possession (e.g., Sarah's book) or create contractions (e.g., can't = cannot).

📝 Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following sentences is correctly capitalized and punctuated?
   1. the dog ran fast.
   2. The Dog ran fast.
   3. The dog ran fast!
   4. The dog ran fast.
2. Choose the sentence that correctly uses a comma.
   1. I like apples bananas and oranges.
   2. I like apples, bananas, and oranges.
   3. I like apples bananas, and oranges.
   4. I like apples, bananas and oranges.
3. Which sentence uses the apostrophe correctly to show possession?
   1. The cats toy is red.
   2. The cat's toy is red.
   3. The cats' toy is red.
   4. The cats toy's is red.
4. Select the sentence that uses quotation marks correctly.
   1. She said, I am going to the store.
   2. She said "I am going to the store".
   3. She said, "I am going to the store."
   4. She said "I am going to the store."
5. Which sentence uses correct capitalization?
   1. Last summer, we visited the grand canyon.
   2. Last Summer, we visited the Grand Canyon.
   3. Last summer, we visited the Grand Canyon.
   4. last summer, we visited the grand canyon.
6. Choose the sentence with correct end punctuation.
   1. Are you going to the party!
   2. Are you going to the party.
   3. Are you going to the party?
   4. Are you going to the party
7. Which sentence is correctly punctuated?
   1. Because it was raining we stayed inside.
   2. Because it was raining, we stayed inside.
   3. Because, it was raining we stayed inside.
   4. Because it was raining we, stayed inside.