Well, it’s been quite awhile since we had a quiz on here. And we haven’t devoted nearly enough time to commas, periods, semi-colons, and dashes. Someday we should discuss which fonts show each of these punctuators at their best. If I recall correctly, Garamond REALLY does right by the semi-colon. In my dream world my word processor automatically picks my preferred font for each punctuation mark as I type it.

But while I’m waiting for someone to invent that, one of my coworkers found this cool grammar website, www.chompchomp.com . The creator has this to say:

“Robin recommends that folks visit another grammar site if they think a tyrannosaurus biting off a limb is too violent a punishment for a wrong answer.”

If that’s not incentive, I don’t know what is. So here is a quiz on commas. Well, comma splices. Rar! (Reminds me of a cute two-year-old nephew quote, on his aunt pretending to be a bear: “I’m coming out here to get away from the RARness!”)
Comma Splice Quiz!

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