Practice using quotation marks in quoted dialogue, poetry, and long prose passages by completing each of the exercises below.
1. Write a short sketch of dialogue between two people.
2. Write a sentence that quotes a single line of poetry.
3. Write two sentences; each quoting the same two lines of poetry. In one, place the poetry lines in the text. In the other, separate the two lines from the text.
4. Write a sentence introducing a prose passage of more than four lines, and then set up the quotation appropriately.
Q3
Use quotation marks and any other punctuation needed in the following sentences:
1. What writer asked, Who has deceived thee so oft as thyself
2. Did Ambrose Bierce define a bore as a person who talks when you wish him to listen
3. Alexander Pope wrote, True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed
4. The history of the earth says Rachel Carson has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
5. Continual means going on with occasional slight interruptions. Continuous means going on with no interruption.
6. Perhaps the poet John Donne was right when he wrote: One short sleep past, we wake eternally / And Death shall be no more.
7. My roommate torments me by repeating trite sayings like better safe than sorry.
Test Yourself
Rewrite each of the following sentences to remedy any punctuation errors.
1. George Washington was born in 1732 in Virginia he was raised on a farm established by his great-grandfather.
2. Washington had a big nose and pock-marked face however he was still considered a handsome man.
3. Washington said this about the war of independence Our cause is noble it is the cause of all mankind.
4. At fifteen Washington became a surveyor his first job was to survey the six-million-acre estate of his neighbour Lord Fairfax.
Washington wanted to return to Mount Vernon after the Constitutional Convention his colleagues persuaded him to become the country’s first president.
5. Washington’s vice president John Adams was sworn in on April 21 1789 Washington was sworn in as the first president on April 30 1789.
6. The British Parliament passed several measures unjust to the American colonists Washington became active in the resistance movement.
7. Washington lost nearly all his teeth a French dentist made him a set from carved rhinoceros ivory.
8. Washington held the first presidential barbecue in 1793 he roasted a five-hundred-pound ox for the party.
10. The U.S. national capital is named for him many American colleges and towns bear his name.
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