Reference no: EM133310219
Assignment:
Correct any errors in punctuation in the following sentences. Mark C if the sentence is correct.
1. In her essay, Maria quoted this passage: "One who becomes lost finds himself in a world of pure possibility. . . . Whilst others believe themselves to be in a secure environment, the one who is lost waits for Fortune's blessing."
2. Click defined the rutabaga as "a tuber [root] from heaven".
3. Maria wrote that "the rutabaga was much more important to Click than to anyone else".
4. When Maria finished her essay, her father said, "Congratulations!."
5. Mr. Rodriguez said that it was "the best thing she had ever written," Mrs. Rodriguez had some minor criticisms.
6. She asked Maria, "Don't you know how to spell receive"?
7. Maria found this error in one of Click's books: "The Civil War lasted seven (sic) years."
8. The error was in the chapter titled "Who Knows the Future?"
9. Later in this chapter, Click wrote that "harm [is] in the eye of the beholder".
10. "The future is the pudding" Click wrote, "that makes us appreciate the salad of life.