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