English Punctuation: A Series of Practical Exercises in Punctuation and Capitalization ...Williams & Rogers, 1899 - 176 sidor |
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66 EXAMPLES 66 EXERCISE according to Rule apostrophe battle beginning Brooklyn Cæsar capital letters Cedilla christianity Tyrants church cisalpine republics clause close colon comma Commodore Perry complete sentence conjunction connected dash death direct question earth east England English exclamation point EXERCISE FOR CORRECTION expressions father feet following extracts following sentences formal Gulf Stream Henry honor Horace Bushnell Hudson river hundred inserted interrogation point John king land Lesson lived lord marks of punctuation meaning Milton MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISE Mound Builders mountains names Napoleon nations never nouns omitted parenthesis parenthetical pause persons place a comma possessive preceded president prince proper adjective quotation marks quoted river Rule III Rule VII semicolon separated ship small letter speaks as follows tence thee Their's thence thing thou thought tion titles truth usage VIII wise writing written
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Sida 63 - knew him well 18. Friends, Romans, countrymen hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear 19. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice, hallooing " Rip Van Winkle Rip Van Winkle.
Sida 80 - In the following sentences and extracts, all the marks of punctuation previously considered have been omitted, and also some small letters have been written where the letters should be capitals. Correct as required. 1. There are no gains without pains then help hands, for I have no lands 2. If you would have your business
Sida 124 - I'm weary of conjectures: this must end them. (Laying his hand upon his sword.) Thus I am doubly armed ; my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me." Sec. 158. Rule III. An exclamation point in a parenthesis is often placed after a word or a sentence to express irony or contempt; and an interrogation point to express doubt.
Sida 80 - done go if not, send 3. For want of a nail, the shoe\ /was lost for want of a shoe, the horse was lost for want of/
Sida 52 - heard him say distinctly, I would give all my fortune if my name might be One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Sida 8 - Mount Blanc is the monarch of Mountains ; they crowned him long ago on a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, with a diadem of Snow. Byron.
Sida 42 - but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with everything that is convenient and ornamental. Addison. In the following extracts, insert both periods and capital letters when required: PRINCE AND PRISONERS
Sida 80 - inordinate desire goes out when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Sida 144 - died by hunger. Them's the ones ; give me them. Let's you and I go to the lecture. This project is wholly different to what I expected. Danger, long travel, want or woe, Soon change the form that best we know.
Sida 62 - Venerable men ! you have come down -to us from a former generation." "Father Almighty! hear our prayer." EXERCISE FOR CORRECTION. SEC. 86. Under Rules