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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5. 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 The dog barked..
The sentence is a statement, so it starts with a capital letter and ends with a period.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: B
The correct answer is Where are you going?.
The sentence asks a question, so it begins with a capital letter and ends with a question mark.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: C
The correct answer is We need milk, bread, and eggs..
The sentence begins with a capital letter and commas separate the three items.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: D
The correct answer is The girl’s hat is red..
The apostrophe and s show that the hat belongs to one girl.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: A
The correct answer is On Tuesday, I visited New York..
Tuesday and New York are proper nouns, and the introductory phrase is followed by a comma.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: B
The correct answer is Liam said, “I finished my book.”.
The name and sentence begin with capitals, and the spoken statement is punctuated inside quotation marks.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: C
The correct answer is Thank you, Grandma..
A comma separates the direct address Grandma, and both the sentence and name are capitalized.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: D
The correct answer is We don’t need umbrellas..
Don’t needs an apostrophe, and this statement ends with a period.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: A
The correct answer is After school, Maya’s brother said, “Let’s play.”.
The introductory phrase has a comma, Maya’s shows possession, and Let’s is correctly punctuated inside the quotation marks.
Please select an answer first.
Correct answer: B
The correct answer is The science fair is on Friday, May 10..
Friday is capitalized, and a comma separates the day of the week from the date.
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.
