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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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| Exercise 20. Read the following text and insert correct punctuation. The numbers and kinds of errors are listed below the paragraph. | | | WRITING LETTERS AND A CURRICULUM VITAE |