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Tina White Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Punctuation
I was wondering if you anyone out there could check my punctuation in the following sentences...
1. Her favourite writers, Joyce Carol Oates and James Dickey , are both comtemportary.
2. Your faults are an uncontrollable temper, inexperience, and indifference to your work.
3. Since we had driven the care 87,000 Kilometers, we decided to turn it in.
4. If siege is spelled wiht an ie, why is seize spelled with an ei?
5. What we need said Mr. Blevin, the union spokesman, "Is a good days pay, for a good days work."
6. Many people, perhaps most people, do not know from what materials their clothing is made.
7. The government was faced with a difficult task; it had to persuade a sceptical, frustrated people that the energy shortage was real.
8. Her camera, her new dress, and her books (all of which she left in her car) were stolen.
9. I have just received an unexpected letter from the director of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
10. The lawn (a little ragged) needs to be cut; the hedge, shrubs, and ivy need to be trimmed, the flower need to be watered, and not least of all, the gardener needs to be paid.
11. The late, Will Roger's favourite saying was I've never met a man I didn't like.
12. Judy Garland is best remembered for her role in the 1930's film The Wizard of Oz.
13. Does anyone remember who said "Absolute power corrupts, absolutely"?
14. I make it a point to read The New York Times every day and The New Yorker every week; only rarely, however, do I get around to Time or Newsweek.
15. You can't do that, they shouted from the balcony, you can't, you can't!
16. The presidents wife's activities are always reported in the press; so are his childrens.
17. Should one judge candidates from the speeches they make, from the printed matter they distribute, or from he ideas they generate?
18. To be a millionare, by the time you are thirty, you will have to: take large risks, be lucky and have creative ideas.
19. Enjoy the view, we called out as they left for the mountain-top. We had wisely decided to wait for them in a meadow hal-fway up.
1. Her favourite writers, Joyce Carol Oates and James Dickey , are both comtemportary.
2. Your faults are an uncontrollable temper, inexperience, and indifference to your work.
3. Since we had driven the care 87,000 Kilometers, we decided to turn it in.
4. If siege is spelled wiht an ie, why is seize spelled with an ei?
5. What we need said Mr. Blevin, the union spokesman, "Is a good days pay, for a good days work."
6. Many people, perhaps most people, do not know from what materials their clothing is made.
7. The government was faced with a difficult task; it had to persuade a sceptical, frustrated people that the energy shortage was real.
8. Her camera, her new dress, and her books (all of which she left in her car) were stolen.
9. I have just received an unexpected letter from the director of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
10. The lawn (a little ragged) needs to be cut; the hedge, shrubs, and ivy need to be trimmed, the flower need to be watered, and not least of all, the gardener needs to be paid.
11. The late, Will Roger's favourite saying was I've never met a man I didn't like.
12. Judy Garland is best remembered for her role in the 1930's film The Wizard of Oz.
13. Does anyone remember who said "Absolute power corrupts, absolutely"?
14. I make it a point to read The New York Times every day and The New Yorker every week; only rarely, however, do I get around to Time or Newsweek.
15. You can't do that, they shouted from the balcony, you can't, you can't!
16. The presidents wife's activities are always reported in the press; so are his childrens.
17. Should one judge candidates from the speeches they make, from the printed matter they distribute, or from he ideas they generate?
18. To be a millionare, by the time you are thirty, you will have to: take large risks, be lucky and have creative ideas.
19. Enjoy the view, we called out as they left for the mountain-top. We had wisely decided to wait for them in a meadow hal-fway up.
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These sentences have punctuation or other problems (many of them simple spelling errors): 1. Her favourite writers, Joyce Carol Oates and James Dickey , are both comtemportary. 3.
- These sentences have punctuation or other problems (many of them simple spelling errors): 1.
- Her favourite writers, Joyce Carol Oates and James Dickey , are both comtemportary.
- 3.
- Since we had driven the care 87,000 Kilometers, we decided to turn it in.
- 4.
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These sentences have punctuation or other problems (many of them simple spelling errors):
1. Her favourite writers, Joyce Carol Oates and James Dickey , are both comtemportary.
3. Since we had driven the care 87,000 Kilometers, we decided to turn it in.
4. If siege is spelled wiht an ie, why is seize spelled with an ei?
5. What we need said Mr. Blevin, the union s
1. Her favourite writers, Joyce Carol Oates and James Dickey , are both comtemportary.
3. Since we had driven the care 87,000 Kilometers, we decided to turn it in.
4. If siege is spelled wiht an ie, why is seize spelled with an ei?
5. What we need said Mr. Blevin, the union s
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