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    This document provides exercises for students to practice using colons, semicolons, quotation marks, and dashes correctly in sentences. It also includes an exercise to punctuate a passage properly. The exercises are intended to help students learn punctuation rules and punctuation's role in clarifying written work.

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    This document provides exercises for students to practice using colons, semicolons, quotation marks, and dashes correctly in sentences. It also includes an exercise to punctuate a passage properly. The exercises are intended to help students learn punctuation rules and punctuation's role in clarifying written work.

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    Punctuation Exercises

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    Andres Cardozo
    This document provides exercises for students to practice using colons, semicolons, quotation marks, and dashes correctly in sentences. It also includes an exercise to punctuate a passage properly. The exercises are intended to help students learn punctuation rules and punctuation's role in clarifying written work.

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    ACADEMIC SKILLS PROGRAM

    STUDENT SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT

    COLONS AND SEMI-COLONS

    Exercises

    Decide whether the sentences below need a colon or semi-colon.

    1. I bring everything I need to class every day ___ my pens, my books and my dictionary.

    2. Young-Hee failed her English test ___ nevertheless, she was able to get a good job.

    3. There are two things about him that drive me crazy ___ his music and his cooking.

    4. I had lamb for lunch ___ Fred had steak.

    5. If you get lost in the snow, this is what you should do ___ stay where you are, make
    yourself warm and comfortable and wait for help.

    6. The USA has a very large land area ___ Canada is even larger.

    7. Instead of recommending further practice, the maestro urged her to listen to recordings by
    famous pianists ___ Rachmaninoff, Rubinstein, Horowitz.

    8. For the baby's birthday party we have ___ a white cake, strawberry-marshmallow ice
    cream, and a bottle of champagne saved from another party.

    9. There are three choices in this life ___ be good, get good, or give up.

    10. I have lived in Chicago, Illinois ___ Kansas City, Missouri ___ and Omaha, Nebraska.

    QUOTATION MARKS
    Exercises

    Punctuate the following sentences correctly with quotation marks.

    1. Have you seen the movie The Ant Bullie?

    2. Which store do you want to go to? asked Marie.


    3. I don't believe you, he said you never tell the truth!

    4. Look both ways before you cross the street Mother reminded us.

    5. As a matter of fact, she said, I am mad at you for leaving early.

    DASHES

    Decide where the dash(es) could go in the following s entences.

    1. The only thing Tony could do if he could do anything at all was to sit and wait for the test
    results to come in the mail.

    2. The first time I went skiing and the first time I broke my leg is when I met my husband.

    3. He wanted to make dinner and eat it with a pretty girl!

    4. Danny could play the one musical instrument that no one wanted to listen to the bagpipes.

    5. Rachel DeWoskin and Kirin Kapur two leading archeologists explore this interesting
    desert region.

    GENERAL PUNCTUATION
    The following passage is missing punctuation. Can you punctuate it properly so it makes sense?

    perhaps you dont always need to use commas periods and colons to make sentences clear

    when i am in a hurry tired cold lazy or angry i sometimes leave out punctuation marks

    grammar is stupid i can write without it and i dont need it my uncle Harry once said he

    was not very clever and i never understood a word he wrote to me i think ill learn some

    punctuation not too much but enough to write to Uncle Harry he needs some help

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