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title: Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 36 «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens

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The 15 questions of lesson 36 «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 84 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t1/) — Your mate goes "brackets are for stuff that doesn't matter, so the teacher skips it." What is truer? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t2/) — ★★★ "A little used car" and "a little-used car." Which one is a car that is not driven much? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t3/) — In a cartoon, a villain's note says "Meet me at the dock... alone." Why the three dots? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t4/) — What would happen if the hyphen fell out of "man-eating shark"? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t5/) — ★★★ Which sentence uses a semicolon wrongly? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t6/) — A Gen Z cousin texts "the vibe — immaculate." Which mark is she using to add drama? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t7/) — Nan in Belfast, dry: "You need three things, love: coat, hat, and stop moaning." What does the colon do? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t8/) — ★★★ Choose the best punctuation: "We visited Leeds, England \_\_\_ Cork, Ireland \_\_\_ and Perth, Australia." — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t9/) — Your brother writes "I like my teacher – she is funny – she is kind – she is fair – she is tall." What would a good editor say? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t10/) — A Liverpool lad says "The match – our kid's first – was boss." ("Boss" means great.) Lift out the part between the dashes. What is left? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/t11/) — Which shows the sofa was covered again, not that someone got better? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/e1/) — Identify the sentence in which a colon is correctly employed to introduce a list. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the function of the semicolon in "It rained; we stayed in"? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/e3/) — Select the response consistent with established convention concerning parenthesis. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/e4/) — Ascertain the number of full stops constituting an ellipsis. — wrong ✗ · exam

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