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Grade 4 · English Language Arts · Unit 6 of 12

Punctuation Power

Apostrophes, commas and quotes

What your child practises

Writing possessives (the dog's bone, the girls' bikes, the children's toys), placing commas in dates, places and lists, and punctuating dialogue with quotation marks.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Representations: Sentence Structure · capitals, commas and quotation marks

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What does the apostrophe in “Sam's hat” show?

    • Sam is asking a question.
    • There is more than one hat.
    • There is more than one Sam.
    • The hat belongs to Sam.

  2. Question 2

    Which sentence uses quotation marks correctly?

    • Let's go to the park, “said Jay.”
    • “Let's go to the park,” said Jay.
    • “Let's go to the park, said Jay.”
    • “Let's go” to the park, said Jay.

  3. Question 3

    Which correctly shows the sleeping bags that belong to the cousins (more than one)?

    • the cousin's sleeping bags
    • the cousins' sleeping bags
    • the cousins sleeping bags

  4. Question 4

    Which is written correctly?

    • Thursday, April 3
    • Thursday, April, 3
    • Thursday April, 3
    • Thursday April 3

  5. Question 5

    Which sentence uses commas correctly?

    • Zoe's, favourite colours are red green and purple.
    • Zoe's favourite colours, are red green, and purple.
    • Zoe's favourite colours are red green and purple.
    • Zoe's favourite colours are red, green and purple.

  6. Question 6

    Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

    • Ana said, I love this song.
    • Ana said “I love this song.”
    • Ana said, “I love this song.”
    • “Ana said, I love this song.”

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