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Punctuating quotation marks

First, look at the website Writing Review on the punctuation of quotation marks, then correct the sentences below. Use the Track Changes software to do this work.

1. I love "free" writing days.

2. As soon as I get home, I'm going to turn on the radio, and I'm sure my favorite song will be playing, "Blue Moon"!

3. Jason tells Medea that he wishes "men could have gotten their children in some other way than by marrying women".

4. In choosing the word "gurgle", instead of "drink", Samuels conveys the comic sound of the drunken man's tippling.

5. Cricket is supposedly nothing more than a "game" , but in fact, it's actually a "religion", if you live in England or India.

End. Create page breaks so that the Split Infinitives, Dangling Modifiers, and Quotation Marks are the only lessons you print. Then print and turn it in.

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Virgules

First, read the website Writing Review page on Virgules, then work on the sentences below.

1. Li Po answers the question of the stranger with Taoist inscrutibility: "You ask me why I lodge in these emerald hills; / I laugh, don't answer—my heart is at peace / " (1-2).

2. for Li Po, the mountain is a pleasant companion: "We look at each other and never get bored—/Just me and Ching-t'ing Mountain" (3-4).

3. Wallace Stevens describes "unsubdued /Elations when the forest blooms" (22).

4. Pablo Neruda asks how the elements can stand to live with nothingness: "How can the water endure it?\What sky have the stones dreamed?\" (4-5).

5. Mary Oliver provides a benediction for her tired reader: "You do not have to be good./You do not have to walk on your knees \ for a hundred miles through the desert repenting" (1-3).

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Dashes versus Hyphens

First, read the website Writing Review page on Dangling Modifiers, then work on the sentences below. Yippee!

1. When I go to the jungle to see the monkey--the Bonobo monkey that is- I like to take plenty of bananas with me, even though it might be considered a bit cliché.

2. It was a ten - year old child who told me for the first time that I was going a little daffy.

3. What kind of training does it take to raise an ewok? He asked me a question like this -- the kind of question that puzzles any sane person for days-every day of the week, so I remained puzzled for months.

4. It was one novel by African American novelist Toni Morrison that made me know I had to study the slave narrative - a crucial genre in the understanding of Americna literature and history - in greater depth.

5. Her hands were so large that they could wrap around my waist--but her fingers were so double- jointed that they frightened me.

End. Create page breaks so that Virgules and Dashes are all that you print. Then print and turn it in.