II. Supply all necessary punctuation in the sentences below

1. She checked her travel bag for everything she needed for her trip to Rome: passport, plane ticket, wallet, money, phone numbers, hotel, reservation, and map.

2. Jerry said: ‘Please write down what I need from the supermarket: milk, juice, bread, bananas, peanut, butter’.

3. Morris drafted the cover letter for his job application: ‘Dear Mr. Rich’, he wrote. ‘Enclosed please find my application and resume for the position of Marketing Assistant, for which you advertised’.

4. Jean's term paper was titled: ‘Arthur Miller's Short Story “Bulldog”, The Author's Use of Metaphor.

5. It was clear to me why I did not make the Honor Roll I had four A's one B and one C.

6. In the composition class we studied grammar syntax and basic mechanics of writing.

7. In the second class we studied the following: how to research a subject, write a thesis statement, support the thesis, and come to a conclusion.

8. Hugh visited several dealerships and found three kinds of cars he wanted to buy: Cadillac, BMW, Jaguar.

9. ‘Aren''t you aiming a little high?’ asked his father. ‘I was thinking more on the order of Ford Chevrolet Toyota’.

10. For our study of the Bible we were asked to read I Corinthians; 1558.

11. For one citation in her bibliography Susan wrote: Woodward C. Vann. ed., Mary Chesnut's Civil War., New Haven Conn., Yale University Press, 1981.

12. The group told me to meet them at The Museum of Natural History at 1:15; unfortunately, the bus moved slowly through the traffic and 1 didn't get there until 1:30; by that time they had already gone inside.

13. The ratio of men to women in our class of twenty students was 41.

14. In my immediate family we have birthdays in the following months: January (1), February (2), March, April, and May (1 each), and July (4).

15. From “The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage”: ‘Today is the dead center of the year or as near dead center as one can conveniently get 182 days gone by 182 to come’.

16. One rule for using colons is this: Capitalize the initial letter after the colon if it introduces a complete sentence; do not capitalize it if it is a fragment.

17. When considering a college here are some questions to ask: does it have a good reputation, can I afford it, does it offer a strong department in the area I want to study, is it in a location of the country where I want to live.

18. Wise words about honoring parents can be found in the Bible in Matthew 1:54; in addition wise words about patience can be found in Hebrews 10:36.

19. For my grandfather's seventy fifth birthday he got everything he wanted: a new reclining chair, four new books, and season tickets to the Yankees.

20. I knew what the professor was about to say: ‘Please bring your portfolio to class next Tuesday’.

21. At the barbeque this is what we had to eat: beans, potato, salad, deviled eggs, peach, cobbler, and, oh yes, barbeque.

22. I turned in my paper titled “The Sermons of Martin Luther King. An Analysis”, unfortunately, my professor said it was long on Dr King's sermons and short on my analysis, so I had to revise it.

23. The reviewer said, Henry's book had these remarkable traits depth clarity and excellent use of research.

24. In the story, the narrator reveals a variety of contradictory fears: fear of being alone and fear of commitment, fear that his extreme discipline had made him stuffy and fear of losing control.

25. One train leaves Penn Station at 10:42 p.m. and the next at 12:01 a.m.

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