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Colons
Lesson 14.1, Exercise
1.
phases:
2.
C
3.
C
4.
following:
5.
Office:
6.
8:00
7.
C
8.
plain:
9.
C
10. Carson:
11. 6:00
12. following:
13. voyage:
14. time:
15. 1:21; wall:
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Semicolons
Lesson 14.2, Exercise 1
1.
award; they
2.
poetry; in fact,
3.
nine; however
4.
teacher; also,
5.
Spain; Lisbon
Portugal; Genoa
Italy; and
Lesson 14.2, Exercise 2
Sentences will vary. Sample answers are shown.
1.
As a teenager, she fell in love; however, the relationship ended tragically.
2.
Mistral taught in Patagonia; as a result, its bleak terrain is in her poems.
3.
She tried to educate Mexico’s rural poor; for instance, she introduced mobile libraries.
4.
Mistral often wrote of motherhood; for example, her poem “Rocking” is about nature
as a mother.
5.
She died in New York in 1957; subsequently, her body was returned to Chile for burial.
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Underlining (Italics)
Lesson 14.3, Exercise 1
1.
Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick describes the voyage of the Pequod, an American
whaling ship.
2.
This issue of Smithsonian magazine has an interesting article about mammoths and
mastodons.
3.
The puzzle editor of The New York Times appears in Wordplay, a documentary film
about crossword puzzle competitions.
4.
The science-fiction film Forbidden Planet is based on Shakespeare’s play The Tempest.
5.
Grant Wood’s famous painting American Gothic has inspired many amusing parodies.
6.
The National Air and Space Museum’s exhibits include the Apollo 11 command
module.
7.
I could not find the phrase nil desperandum in my dictionary.
8.
Aeneas, hero of Virgil’s epic poem, is often called pius, a Latin word meaning “loyal”
that is the source of the English word pious.
9.
The name of the Islamic sacred text may be spelled with a k or with a q.
10. Does your phone number begin with the number 4?
Lesson 14.3, Exercise 2
One of the books I read this summer was Jules Verne’s science-fiction novel
1
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 2The name of the main character, Captain
Nemo, commander of the submarine Nautilus, comes from the Latin word nemo,
which means “no one.” 3Did you know the Navy named the nation’s first atomic
submarine, the Nautilus, after Nemo’s ship? 4I remember that the model submarine
in Walt Disney’s film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea looked really great. 5By the way,
the titles of the novel and film are different—Verne spells out twenty thousand, and
Disney uses the numerals.
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Quotation Marks
Lesson 14.4, Exercise 1
1.
in “The Ancient Regime,” a
2.
titled, “In…Tarrytown.”
3.
song “Ichabod Crane.”
4.
called, “The…Irving.”
5.
“Fall…Valley,” an
Lesson 14.4, Exercise 2
1.
Irving describes the skinny schoolmaster Ichabod Crane as a scarecrow “from a
corn-field.
2.
Barry asked “is Crane the main character of the story?”
3.
C
4.
My English teacher asked, in what year was Irving born?”
5.
C
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Punctuating Dialogue
Lesson 14.5, Exercise 1
1.
“There…ways,” Dr. … replied, “in…this.”
2.
eagerly, “What…poisons?”
3.
“Some…frog,” Dr. Adler explained, “can…toxins.”
4.
“Cool name!” Jaime said. “I…those.”
5.
“Other…toxins,” Dr. Adler continued, “from…eat.”
Lesson 14.5, Exercise 2
Answers will vary. Sample answers are shown.
1.
“Yuck!” Jaime exclaimed. “I’d get sick on a diet like that, too!”
2.
“The Monarch larvae,” Dr. Adler continued, “are brightly colored.”
3.
“Why is that important?” Jaime asked.
4.
“Birds link the larvae’s colors and getting sick,” Dr. Adler explained, “so they
avoid them.”
5.
“Isn’t it weird that nature uses bright color as a warning sign?” Jaime inquired.
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Apostrophes
Lesson 14.6, Exercise 1
1.
Weve all heard of pioneering woman pilots from the 1920s and 1930s, such as Amelia
Earhart and Bessie Coleman. We’ve
2.
Womens contributions as World War II pilots are less well known. Women’s
3.
The WASP program was Jackie Cochrans idea, and the credit for starting it is hers.
Cochran’s
4.
Do you spell Cochran with two cs? c’s
5.
If youre wondering what WASP stands for, its “Women Airforce Service Pilots.”
you’re, it’s
6.
The programs start was triggered by Americas wartime shortage of male pilots, the
flyers who had traditionally delivered our factories flood of planes to the airfields.
program’s, America’s, factories’
7.
Everyones problem became someones opportunity. Everyone’s, someone’s
8.
If it hadnt been for this, women probably wouldnt have had a chance to fly military
aircraft. hadn’t, wouldn’t
9.
That groups thousand pilots ferried aircraft, tested planes, and even towed targets for
artillery practice. group’s
10. These brave women flew in the countrys service and deserve our respect and yours.
country’s
Lesson 14.6, Exercise 2
“We thought wed died and gone to heaven,” one WASP later said of these womens’
1
service. 2Their’s was a dangerous duty, however, and thirty-eight of the women did die
in Americas service. 3One WASP accompanied her roommates body home for burial.
She had to tell the young womans parents of her death because of these pilot’s lack of
4
official military status. 5 Sacrifices such as her’s surely deserved military honors, such as
draping an American flag over her coffin.
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