Monday, November 18, 2013
Sentence Corrections
Breakfast is my favorite meal. I like hot food for breakfast. I prefer eggs and bacon to oatmeal. A good breakfast always starts my day off right.
I love hot food for breakfast, eggs and bacon rather than oatmeal; breakfast is my favorite meal, its a great way to start the day off right!
Put in semicolons, colons, dashes, quotation marks, and Italics (use an underline), wherever they are needed in the following sentences.
1. "Whoever thought," said Helen, -that Jack would be elected class president?-
2. In baseball; a show boat is a man who shows off.
3. The minister quoted "Isaiah 5:21" in last Sunday's sermon.
4. There was a very interesting article entitled, The New Rage for Folk Singing in last Sunday's New York Times newspaper.
5. "Whoever is elected secretary of the club: Ashley, Chandra, or Aisha, must be prepared to do a great deal of work," said Jumita, the previous secretary.
6. Darwin's On the Origin of Species 1859 , caused a great controversy when it appeared.
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