Exercise 3   Using Semicolons and Commas

Exercise 3   Using Semicolons and Commas

1. Cyberella; 14. correspondent; he, therefore,

2. raucously, . . . computer, 15. necessary; moreover,

3. button; therefore, 16. Southwest,

4. Internet, 17. Amarillo, Texas; Tucumcari, New Mexico;

5. education; naturally, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Window Rock,

6. opportunity; however, 18. Igor; however,

7. Web; . . . 19. instructions; of course,

8. Prince”; princess, 20. Cool4aday, . . . elated; therefore, . . .

9. Transylvania; in fact, holiday, . . . glee,

10. room; 21. Asked, or ; . . . response, said, “No,

11. hour; or , . . . thought, 22. very very nice, . . . asked,

12. heart; therefore, 23. “Yes,” . . . printer,

13. question; . . . strike, . . . dark, 24. after, . . . while; . . . palace, . . . test,

Exercise 4   Using Quotation Marks and Italics

1. Professor Jones said, “Now we will read from The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.”

2. The enthusiastic students shouted, “We like Poe! We like Poe!”

3. The professor lectured for fifty-seven minutes before he finally said, “In conclusion, I say that Poe was an unappreciated writer during his lifetime.”

4. The next speaker said, “I believe that Poe said, ‘A short story should be short enough so that
a person can read it in one sitting.’”

5. Then, while students squirmed, he read “The Fall of the House of Usher” in sixty-eight minutes.

6. “Now we will do some reading in unison,” said Professor Jones.

7. The students were not pleased that they would be reading only the word nevermore from “The Raven.”

8. The professor reached into his bag of props, took out a dark, feathered object, and said, “I have brought a stuffed raven.”

9. “That’s not a raven. That’s a crow,” said a student who was majoring in ornithology.

10. The professor waggled his finger playfully at his audience and said, “I believe Coleridge once observed, ‘Art sometimes requires the willing suspension of disbelief.’”

Exercise 5   Using Correct Punctuation and Capital Letters

Will Rogers (1879-1935) was a famous movie star, newspaper writer, and lecturer. A part-Cherokee Indian, he was born in what was then Indian Territory before Oklahoma became a state. He is especially known for his humor and his social and political criticism. He said, “My ancestors may not have come over on the Mayflower, but they met ‘em at the boat.” He said that when many Oklahomans moved to California in the early l1030s, the average IQ increased in both states. In his early years, he was a first-class performer in rodeos, circuses, and variety shows. When he performed in variety shows, he often twirled a rope. He usually began his presentations by saying, “All I know is what I read in the papers.” Continuing to be close to his Oklahoma roots, he appeared in fifty-on silent movies and twenty-one talking movies. At the age of fifty-six, he was killed in an airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska. He was so popular and influential that his statue now stands in Washington, D.C. On another statue of his in Claremore, Oklahoma, is inscribed one of his most famous sayings: “I never met a man I didn’t like.”

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ack (Jackie) Roosevelt Robinson 1919–1972 was born in Pasadena California. After excelling in sports in high school and community college he transferred to UCLA, where he lettered in four sports baseball, basketball, football, and track. In world war II he was commissioned second lieutenant in the army. After he was discharged he joined the negro league as a player with the Kansas City Monarchs for $100 a week. In 1947 he was offered a tryout with the Brooklyn dodgers. Before no African Americans had been allowed to participate in the minor or major leagues. After signing a contract, Jackie Robinson was sent to the minor leagues and there he played for one year with Montreal a team in the International League. Following a year in which he was the best hitter in the league he was brought up to the major leagues. During the first year 1947 he showed his greatness and was named the rookie of the year. Two years later he was the most valuable player in the national league and won the batting title with a .342 average. Despite the initial bigoted opposition by some baseball fans and players he performed with dignity courage and skill. Nevertheless he was an independent proud person. In the book Players of Cooperstown Mike Tully wrote he Robinson refused to be someone he was not, refused to conform to an image of a man who ‘knew his place.’ Because sports is such a high profile activity Jackie Robinson is credited with playing a significant role in breaking down the racial barriers in society. In his ten years in the major leagues he helped his team reach the world series six times. He was inducted into the Baseball hall of fame in 1962.

Exercise 7   Writing Sentences with Correct Punctuation

Answers will vary.

chapter 13   Spelling and Commonly Confused Words

Exercise 1   Using Correct Spelling

Professor Pufnagel was torturing his English students once again, and he

familiar role assistance

relished his familar evil roll. “Today, class, we will write without the assistence

prescription

of computers. In fact, never again will we use them in this class. They are a perscription

laziness too a lot

for lazyness. And they make life to easy for alot of you.”

professor stressing

The profesor lectured the students for an hour, stresing that when he was in

environment extolled writing

school, there were no computers in his enviroment. He extoled the virtues of writting

pencils dependable

with little yellow pensils, fountain pens, and solid, dependible typewriters. He went

on with his ranting, listing computer games, television sets, frozen foods, plastic wrap,

aspirin similar led

asperin, and Velcro as similiar and familiar negative forces that had lead society to

its truly pitiful

it’s truely sorry state. “You are nothing but a pityful pack of party people, and you

receive

will recieve no sympathy from me,” he sputtered. Grabbing a student’s laptop

athlete

computer, Pufnagel reared back and, like an athalete, hurled it against the wall. In

shining

the corner of the classroom lay a pile of high-tech junk, once fine shinning machines,

awful

now just garbage—smashed in a senseless, aweful war against technology.

stared embarrassed their

The students starred in embarassed amazement at there professor, who was

nervous

developing a nervious twitch. His mouth began twisting and contorting as his limbs
jerked with the helter-skelter motion of a tangled marionette. He clutched

desperately pour

desparately at his throat, and smoke began to poor out of his ears and neck.

Unconscious

Unconsious, he crashed to the floor with a clatter.
One of the students, who had just taken a CPR class, rushed forward and
attempted to revive the fallen educator. As the student pounded with a catchy rap

rhythm heard

rhythem on the chest of his stricken teacher, everyone herd a loud pop and sizzle.

popped

It was a door in Pufnagel’s chest, which had poped open to reveal the complex
electrical control panel of a short-circuited cyborg!

then government

Just than a security team in white jumpsuits from student goverment entered the

rolled

class, carefully deposited Pufnagel on a wheelbarrow, and roled him out to the Faculty
Service Center.

Ladies

A few minutes later a Professor Ramirez arrived. “Ladys and gentlemen,” she

it’s previous

said, “its time to start your search engines. Your prevous professor’s mainframe is
down, but I’m his substitute and mine is fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine,
fine, fine. . . .”

Exercise 2   Spelling Confusing Words

1. hear 11. already

2. than 12. chose

3. their 13. receive

4. through 14. quite

5. piece 15. could have

6. all right 16. lose

7. passed 17. it’s

8. too 18. accept

9. advice 19. know

10. a lot 20. paid

Exercise 3   Spelling Confusing Words

1. all right 11. truly

2. peace 12. weather

3. receive 13. advise

4. then 14. accept

5. thorough 15. a lot

6. quiet 16. choose

7. patients 17. it’s

8. altogether could have 18. two

9. led 19. there

10. grammar 20. written

Exercise 4 Avoiding Wordy Phrasing
1. together

2. in the near future soon

3. As a matter of fact In fact

4. in my heart that

5. due to the fact that because

6. In this modern world Now of the

7. for the reason that because

8. At the present time Now

9. in the near future soon

10. personally

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