Grade 4 English Language Arts · Punctuation and Capitalization
Build Grade 4 English Language Arts editing skills with five 10-question practice tests on sentence punctuation, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, and capitalization.
These Grade 4 English Language Arts practice tests help students edit sentences for punctuation and capitalization. Students choose sentence endings, place commas, use apostrophes and quotation marks, and capitalize proper nouns.
Read the complete sentence before choosing an answer. Decide what kind of sentence it is, check whether a word is a proper noun, and look for lists, dates, direct address, possessive nouns, or spoken words that need special punctuation.
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3. Test
A 10-question Grade 4 English Language Arts practice test on sentence punctuation, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, and capitalization.
Read each sentence carefully and choose the punctuation or capitalization that makes the sentence correct.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: A
The correct answer is can’t.
Can’t is the contraction formed from cannot.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: B
The correct answer is The dog’s leash is blue..
An apostrophe and s show possession for one dog.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: C
The correct answer is The players’ uniforms are clean..
An apostrophe after the s shows possession by plural players.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: D
The correct answer is Maya said, “I am ready.”.
The spoken words are in quotation marks, and the period goes inside the closing quotation mark.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: A
The correct answer is they’re.
They’re combines they and are with an apostrophe.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: B
The correct answer is The children’s books are on the shelf..
Children is already plural, so the possessive form is children’s.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: C
The correct answer is The bird spread its wings..
Its shows possession; it’s means it is.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: D
The correct answer is Ben asked, “Are we there yet?”.
The spoken question is inside quotation marks, and the question mark stays inside them.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: A
The correct answer is The teachers met after school..
Teachers is a plural noun, not a possessive noun, so it does not need an apostrophe.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: B
The correct answer is I wrote, “Thank you,” on the card..
The comma after the spoken words belongs inside the quotation marks.
Use a question mark at the end of a sentence that asks a question.
Use an apostrophe in contractions and to show possession, such as do not becoming don’t or one dog owning a leash becoming dog’s leash.
The page includes five mini tests with 10 questions each, for 50 Grade 4 Punctuation and Capitalization questions in total.
