5.2 5.5 5.6 5A

PART FIVE
Mechanics
Quotation Marks (I)
5.2
Quotation Marks (II)
5.3
Titles (I)
5A
Titles (II)
5.5
or Underlining (I)
5.6
Italics or Underlining (II)
5.7
Hyphen (I)
5.8
Hyphen (II)
5.9
Numbers (I)
5.10
Numbers (JI)
5.11
Capitalization (I)
5.12
Capitalization (II)
Quotation Marks (I)
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the appropriate places. (Extra spaces have been
punctuation marks.)
Place punctuation marks
that you have room to
1. Harold
said
copy
2. The
3. I
know
4. It
has
'"
••
write
study
boss
leave
asked
9. When
will
one
&cream
I
and
under
a
herself
students
more
What
have
stop
asking
tells
that
mo;
I
home
do
my
think
to
move
any
Phoenix
moreover
I
circumstances
born
every
I
done
What's
me
professor
c'esf
at
won't
excellent
said
Bova,)'.
read
Boston
said
8. Mary
pn
makeshift
told
to
10. If
own
is
work
attention
Madame
Constance
said
your
my
never
thing
Who
to
change
oil
working
that
come
an
needs
machine
my
6. Joe
car
she
Flaubert
5. In
My
between words so
to
minute
my
grade
Have
a
so
day
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Quotation Marks (II)
Using quotation marks in each of your answers, construct sentences according to the following
directions.
I. Use a colon and quotes.
2. Use a comma and quotes.
3. Reverse the order of sentence 2.
4. Construct a declarative sentence that contains an interrogative quote.
5. Construct an interrogative sentence that contains a declarative quote.
6. Construct an interrogative sentence that contains an interrogative quote.
7. Use a semicolon and quotes.
8. Use a Quote within a quote.
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Either underline or place quotation marks around each of the foHowing titles.
I.
Great Expectations
2.
USS Constitution
3. Tintern Abbey
4. Civil Disobedience
5.
General Hospital
6. Hiawatha
Chicago Tribune
8. Middlemarch
9. America the Beautiful
10. The
Projection in The Prison-House of Language
11.
Playboy
12.
L.
13.
New World Symphony
14.
Law
on a
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Urn
15.
16. Oliver
17.
A Modest Proposal
18.
Politics and the English Language
19.
George Eliot's Religion of Humanity in George Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays
20. Mona Lisa
5.4
Titles (II)
For each of the following sentences, analyze the use of quotation marks or underlining. Whether
the sentence is correct or incorrect, write a rationale for what yOtl believe to be the correct way to
express each statement.
1. Yesterday, the Washington Post carried an article entitled, Recent Broadway Flops.
2. When I was behind the Iron Curtain, 1 actually traveled on the Orient Express.
3. High-school Latin students translate Cicero's "Catilinian Orations."
4. One of our humanities projects was to see Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" performed by a Russian
ballet company.
5. One of the sections of Donald C. Free:nan's text, Essays in Modern Stylistics, contains the complex article entitled Stress, Syntax and Meter by Paul Kiparsky.
6. My favorite episode of "60 Minutes" is "The Mexican Connection."
7. On Thursdays I get all of my homework finished early so that 1 can watch The Cosby Show,
Family Ties, and Cheers.
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5.5
italics or UoderUning (I)
Answer the following questions .
I. When are words italicized?
2. Under what circumstances are foreign words not italicized?
3. Give an example of a foreign word that would not be italicized?
4. Create two examples of "words used as words."
5. Use a foreign expression that needs to be italicized in a sentence.
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5.6
lIalics or Underlining (II)
Compare the following sets of sentences. Which is correct?
1. According to Webster, the word "geomorphic" means "pertaining to the topography of the
earth ."
According to Webster. the word geomorphic means pertaining to the topography of the earth.
According to Webster, the word geomorphic means "pertaining to the topography of the earth."
2. Your use of the verb executed is an overstatement about what your veterinarian did to your sick
dog.
Your use of the verb executed is an overstatement about what your veterinarian did to your sick
dog.
Your use of the verb "executed" is an overstatement about what your veterinarian did to your sick
dog.
3. As writers become better at what they do, they pay more and more attention to searching for
mot juste.
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As writers become better at what they do, they pay more and more attention to searching for Ie
mot juste.
As writers become better at what they do, they pay more and more attention to searching for "Ie
mot juste."
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S.7
Hyphen (I)
Indicate whether
of the following words is correct or incorrect. If
word is incorrect. explain whether it should be one word, a hyphenated word, or two separate words.
1. the home-court advantage
2. anti-Iranian
3. anti-war
4. re-entry
5. sixteen-guns
6. a sixteen gun salute
antintellectual
8. semi-conscious
9. a three run
10. exgovernor
11. a never-give-up kind of person
12. never give up
13. seventytwo
14. di vide word: occurrence
15. divide word: drunkenness
Hyphen (II)
Rewrite the following paragraph
Governor elect
correcting hyphens as needed.
is a well known speaker. He has
over thirty {our cities
addressed thousands
during the last few
Actually. he is a down home sort of
person who is concerned about the people but opposed to the
antinuclear
on at the state capital. Alth-
ough Samuelson is basically or()oc:aoe:. he feels that the nation
must have strong
His stand actual-
ly coincides with the stand of the president.
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5.9
Numbers (I)
Write out five rules for writing numbers.
Create an example that demonstrates each rule.
1. Rule
Example
2. Rule
Example
3. Rule
Example
4. Rule
Example
5, Rule
Example
S.10
Numbers (II)
Write sentences that follow the directions or answer the questions given below_
I. Begin a sentence by stating something about 542 airplanes.
2. Inform your friend about what time the party will start.
3. Explain the percentage of discount now being given at your local K-Mart.
4. How much did you pay for your compact disc player?
5. Three more than twenty girls are on the volleyball team.
6. What is the size of your room?
1 UlpnIWZal1ClD (I)
Circle
that should be capitalized.
1. my mother was born in des moines, iowa, but she grew up in baltimore, maryland.
2.
our accounting manager I will oe<::OITle the new vice president of finance in
l:)eC:awse i have been all over the world, i
4.
5.
foreign languages fluently.
french and indian war. like most wars, could have easily been avoided.
'''-'''5''''' touches the shores of iUinois .............,"'. wisconsin, and michigan.
6. william wycherley's play the country wife entertained seventeenth-century !:IlulI,.",.t"P4: in england.
7. we took amtrak from winona. minnesota, all the way to seattle, washington.
8.
"'''''''If''..... honoring the fourth
july are
attended
new england than
are in the west.
S.12
Capitalization (II)
Briefly write ten rules of capitalization. Give one example of eal:h.
1. Rule
Example
2. Rule
Example
3. Rule
Example
4. Rule
Example
5. Rule
Example
6. Rule
Example
7. Rule
Example
8. Rule
Example
9. Rule
Example
to. Rule
Example
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