Punctuation

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1. Punctuate the following sentences.
Information resources must be correct timely concise and comprehensive
She read all kinds of books ancient and modern Chinese and foreign
I have seen neither the camel nor the cargo nor the jewels insisted the Arab
The professor entered the classroom opened his notebook and began his lecture.
The bell ran on and on and Tom was still reluctant to get out of bed
We must leave now or we will miss the plane
John was busy cooking but Mary was playing the piano
The work is pleasant and the hours are short
George seeing his brother was hurt ran to help him.
Bored with his work he thought of going home early.
She suddenly appeared at the door a bunch of flowers in her hand.
The ceremony over we went back home
My father however was determined to continue.
Some people work best in the mornings others do better in the evenings
Trains are too slow hence he has decided to go by plane.
I don’t want to go besides I’m too tired.
The film brought him fame moreover it brought him money.
On the committee are quite a few well known people for example Professor Zhang an expert in economics Dr. Wang President of the Medical University and Mr. Li Editor in Chief of the local evening paper
Three persons were mentioned in her will John her brother Martin her nephew and Helen her faithful friend
We have more knowledge but less sense more medicine, but less wellness
We visited several major cities in Europe Paris, Lyon, London, Rome, Milan and Berlin.
We need three kinds of support economic, political and moral.
He protested It’s not my fault that no one stays
Abraham Lincoln said You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time
Have you read the essay The Simple Joys of Life in the January Reader’s Digest?
She is you have seen her before no longer what she used to be.
This answer if we can call it an answer is completely meaningless.
Everybodys business is nobodys business
They worked without a moments rest
How many 5s did you get?
2. Decide whether the use of the apostrophe in each item is correct or not. In the space provided, write C for correct and W for wrong.
1) ____ I bought ten dollar's worth of stamps.
2) ____ The night shift nurses uniforms were cleaned and pressed.
3) ____ The children's book club met every Saturday morning.
4) ____ The Murray's phone bills are often over $100 a month.
5) ____ The decision is yours.
6) ____ It seems an interesting idea, but there are a lot of if's.
3. Put in hyphens, dashes, parentheses, brackets, and ellipsis where they are needed in the following sentences.
1) Darwin's On the Origin of Species 1859 caused a great controversy when it appeared.
2) "Whoever is elected secretary of the club Ashley, or Chandra, or Aisha must be prepared to
do a great deal of work," said Jumita, the previous secretary.
3) "But to be restricted to just two forms of punctuation mark ... is like building a house using
only a hammer and a saw you can do it; but not very well."
4) Cold hearted stepmothers are a fixture in many famous fairy tales.
5) A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown
the jumping on a chair at the sight of a mouse era and a major who says that they haven't.
6) He could easily have saved the situation by But why talk about it?
7) "During the height of the storm, winds exceeded 55 miles an hour the local weather station
recorded 60 miles an hour, with gusts up to 65 miles an hour."
8) We are sad at the small number of people five who accepted our invitation.
9) Money that's all he thinks about!
10) Eventually the investigation had to examine the major agencies including the preciously
sacrosanct National Security Agency that were conducting covert operations.。