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Exercise 23. Punctuate the sentences (for checking in class).

Capital Letters | Full stop (Am. E. period) | Exercise 7. Combine the following sentences using appositives. | The Hyphen (-) | Exercise 14. Use an apostrophe in the following sentences. | Independent clauses | The closing (or the complimentary close). | A Guide to Formal Letter Writing | Exercise 29. Read the following advertisement and letter of application. In the letter of application find and correct 10 punctuation mistakes. | A Guide to Writing a Curriculum Vitae |


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  1. A good thesis sentences will control the entire argument.
  2. A) Make sentences in bold type less definite and express one's uncertainty of the following.
  3. A) Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences to make a summary of what Carl says.
  4. A) Read the following text and do the exercises below.
  5. A. Read the semi-formal sentences below and match them to the informal ones in the table, as in the example.
  6. According to the author, are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
  7. Action I, Exercise 6

1. they were suddenly interrupted by an insistent american of sinister aspect vending copies of the herald and of the times fresh from new york

2. but her mother was american and she was brought up in chicago and she was more american than european

3. actually professor i prefer to speak to you in person

4. after a lawyers meeting the following morning the two of them drove down to dauncey place

5. when she was gone he used her coded mobile phone to reach ferguson

6. he was well into gershwin melody when kate rashid appeared

7. my father pretended to look embarrassed and my mother seemed to be waiting for me to bow down or something

8. for starters she could paint anything landscapes portraits still lifes

9. for years he d been a member of the irish national liberation army a very extremist organisation

10. when blake went into the lounge a little while later the president was

drinking coffee a frown on his face

11. besides yesterday was my birthday I was eighteen

12. but thoughts of her principal faded as she digested the news he d given

her which she had no intention of keeping secret

13.there were three men sitting in the windowseat eating breakfast one was

middle aged with a beard the other two were younger

14. he was gorgeous and he drove a harley davidson motorcycle

 

Exercise 24. Read the following text. In most lines there are punctuation mistakes. For each line show correct punctuation or put a tick (√) if a sentence is correct. The exercise begins with two examples (0) and (00).

  HALLOWING is the scariest holiday of the year especially at my house. I live in sheer terror from the first week of October of my young daughter asking for a homemade costume. Ghosts ghouls, and goblins dont strike fear into my heart as much as the electric torture device known as ‘The Sewing Machine.’ The last time I saw mine it was holding up the back end of my husbands’ car while he changed the tire. ‘I want you to make me into Cinderella’, my daughter announced on schedule ‘at the ball.’ ‘How about a ghost?,’ I pleaded. ‘Or something else with one seam? ‘Cinderella, she insisted, ‘with lace, puffy sleeves, and lots of jewels!’ I silently cursed the other mothers on the block who diligently sewed their childrens’ costumes each year They could make ten Cinderellas and a fairy godmother in the time it took me to tie my shoe. Throughout October the street was filled with the hum of sewing machines coming from every direction mine was silent … ……√………. year, especially ……………………………… ……………………………………………… ……………………………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ……………………………… ………….…………………… ………………………………

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