Latvijas Avīze Offers a Quiz on Comma Usage in Latvian

The website of Latvijas Avīze, a Latvian newspaper, has published a quiz that lets readers test their knowledge of comma usage in the Latvian language. The comma is a punctuation mark whose incorrect placement can change how a sentence reads and is a common writing error. The quiz is aimed at anyone interested in language culture.

How the quiz is built

The quiz contains ten questions. The first concerns the quiz's own title: readers must answer whether they spotted a missing comma in it. Only two answer options are offered, "Yes" and "No". The remaining tasks follow, in which commas have to be put in the correct places.

How the newspaper presents it

The introduction compares commas to small but tricky road posts on the highway of language. Place them wrongly, it says, and you can suffer a serious crash on that road. Readers are invited to prove that they are masters of Latvian who can put every comma where it belongs.

The illustration is a photo from the image site Pexels.com. The source gives no further information, such as how results in the quiz are scored.