Today is punctuation day so we have created a fun quiz to test your knowledge of punctuation and grammar! The quiz has a few hidden surprises so make sure you keep your eyes peeled and read very carefully.
https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/5ba8b1825924f500138b6fdb
Here are 5 fun facts about punctuation that we thought were very interesting:
1) The hyphen is not the only horizontal piece of punctuation, there are actually three horizontal variations. These are the hyphen, the en dash and the em dash. The hyphen is the smallest of the three and the em dash is the longest.
2) The ‘#’ symbol is actually called an octothorpe.
3) In Italy, the word symbol ‘@’ is actually referred to as a little snail.
4) The exclamation mark and the question mark were not always symbols and in fact used to be words. The exclamation mark was instead ‘io’ and the question mark was ‘questio’.
5) There used to be a punctuation mark called the ‘interrobang’ which was a combination of the question mark and the exclamation mark. It was used when asking a question excitedly.
