Practice Exercises
for the Rules of Punctuation

Below are some practice exercises for the rules of punctuation in English. See how well you understand the rules. The answer keys are included.

Conjunctions – Practice Exercises

Dash, Slash, Ellipses, Brackets – Practice Exercises

Parentheses – Practice Exercises

Parts of Speech – Practice Exercises

Prepositions – Practice Exercises

Quotation Marks – Practice Exercises

The Apostrophe – Practice Exercises

The Colon – Practice Exercises

The Comma – Practice Exercises

The Exclamation Point – Practice Exercises

The Hyphen – Practice Exercises

The Question Mark – Practice Exercises

The Semicolon – Practice Exercises

Special thanks to Vickilee Gunn, Instructional Aide at the Center for Academic Success at Butte College, for the development of these practice exercises.