Question

The following sentence is correctly punctuated:
O! God! What do we do now?
A) True
B) False

Answer 1

Hint: Punctuations are defined as proper spacing, conventional signs and marks that help the reader to understand things in a better way. There are fourteen punctuation marks that are commonly used and they are question marks, full stop, comma, semicolon, colon, dash, a hyphen, exclamation mark, brackets, braces, apostrophe etc.

Complete answer:
An exclamation mark is used to show emphasis or a strong feeling of something. These marks can be used in the idle of the sentence and in the end of the sentence but if we use at the end of the sentence it acts as a period or full stop. For example: yeah! That’s fantastic!

The punctuation mark used in the sentence “O! God! What do we do now?” is simply incorrect because when using the interjection "O", the exclamation mark is placed after the nominative of address. In the given sentence, the nominative of address is "God." Therefore, the correctly punctuated sentence should be:
O, God! What do we do now?

Let us look into the given options:
Option A) True – This is an incorrect answer because the punctuation is incorrect.
Option B) False – This is the correct answer because the given punctuation in the sentence is incorrect and therefore, this is the correct answer.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note:
- Difference between a full stop and exclamation mark (we are explaining these two punctuation marks because exclamation marks also act as a period or full stop). We use a full stop in an affirmative sentence. For example, I go swimming every day.
- Exclamation is used at the end of the wish and used for a surprising reaction. For example All the best!