PUNCTUATION MARK – question marks, exclamation marks, colon & semicolon
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the box, if the punctuation mark is correct;
if it is wrong.
1. Where is the gas station?
2. Watch out!
8. Do Not Enter!
10.How did you do that?
11. That dog is going to bite me!
13. Ember ate all of her vegetables; therefore! she deserves to get dessert.
14. What color is your shirt?
15. Fantastic, we close the deal!
16. When will you arrive?
17. I always follow the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you want others to do unto you!
18. Wow! my team won the State championship!
19. Did they go to the party?
20. My favorite teachers are Prof. Felicitas, my Philosophy of Man teacher; Prof. Dayahan, my Filipino teacher; and Prof. Lucenara, my Clinical Instructor?
21. I just won a million dollars!
22. Does he like apples?
23. Our birthdays are October 18, 1983; February 22, 1983; September 15, 2008; and April 24, 2014!
24. I have been to a few states in America: California, Arkansas, Utah, Colorado, and Alabama!
25. Brilliant! you solved that rubric cube!
26. A mom’s responsibilities: cooking, washing dishes; washing the clothes; and taking care of the children?
27. Do you know her name?
28. Awesome! you got that coveted job!
29. During summer; these are the activities that are enjoyed: swimming, biking, playing volleyball; and water skiing.
30. Is she a teacher?
31. You speak Korean, don’t you?
32. I have lived in San Francisco, California; London, England: and Auckland, New Zealand.
33. The dog is a yellow Labrador retriever, right!
34. Ouch, that really hurts!
35. You paid for those shoes, didn’t you?
36. Dave is not here, is he!
37. Do you like pizza? chicken? hamburger?
B. Rewrite the paragraphs with the correct punctuation marks.
1. When Jeanne White found out that her son was infected with a virus that would one day claim his life she wept. 2. What else could a mother do
3. The disease however was only of Ryan White’s enemies. 4. He would face others just a cruel suspicion ignorance and hatred. 5. And there was a great deal his mother could do about that.
6. A child who knows he’s going to die wants everything right away. Thats natural. 7. He wants to experience every single thing that he can even if it’s dangerous driving a fast car traveling everywhere and meeting everybody. 8. Ryan would sit in his room filled with miniature figurines action heroes model cars and plane comic books - excerpt from the book: Weeding Out the Tears
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