Grade 7 English Language Arts Sample Question 8

Skunks are omnivores meaning that they eat both plants and animals. They
can be found eating nuts berries roots leaves grasses and even some types of
fungi (mushroom-like plants). For animals they enjoy dining on rodents such
as mice and rats insects earthworms frogs lizards toads and birds. Sometimes
when they are unable to find live animals to eat they become scavengers
eating dead animals left behind. When they live close to people’s homes
skunks sometimes will even get into trash cans eating garbage.

What punctuation mark does the writer need to focus on adding while
editing this paragraph?

A) end punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation mark)

B) semi-colon

C) comma (Correct Answer)

D) colon

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