Type an excerpt—a paragraph or two, double-spaced—from any literature, excluding a
specific punctuation mark you want to review or, if your student is ready for more extensive editing, removing all punctuation marks. Instruct your student to be the editor, inserting the proper punctuation marks where appropriate. Compare with the
original.
specific punctuation mark you want to review or, if your student is ready for more extensive editing, removing all punctuation marks. Instruct your student to be the editor, inserting the proper punctuation marks where appropriate. Compare with the
original.
An Example from Johnny Tremain, page 43, without punctuation:
Weeks wore on September was ending a large part of every day Johnny spent doing
what he called ‘looking for work’ he did not really want to follow any trade but his own
he looked down on soap-boilers leather-dressers ropemakers and such he did not begin
his hunt along Hancock’s Wharf and Fish Street where he and his story were well known
and the masters would have been apt to employ him from pity he went to the far ends
of Boston
Weeks wore on September was ending a large part of every day Johnny spent doing
what he called ‘looking for work’ he did not really want to follow any trade but his own
he looked down on soap-boilers leather-dressers ropemakers and such he did not begin
his hunt along Hancock’s Wharf and Fish Street where he and his story were well known
and the masters would have been apt to employ him from pity he went to the far ends
of Boston
An Example from Johnny Tremain, page 43, with punctuation:
Weeks wore on. September was ending. A large part of every day Johnny spent doing
what he called ‘looking for work.’ He did not really want to follow any trade but his
own. He looked down on soap-boilers, leather-dressers, ropemakers, and such. He did
not begin his hunt along Hancock’s Wharf and Fish Street, where he and his story were
well known and the masters would have been apt to employ him from pity. He went to
the far ends of Boston.
Weeks wore on. September was ending. A large part of every day Johnny spent doing
what he called ‘looking for work.’ He did not really want to follow any trade but his
own. He looked down on soap-boilers, leather-dressers, ropemakers, and such. He did
not begin his hunt along Hancock’s Wharf and Fish Street, where he and his story were
well known and the masters would have been apt to employ him from pity. He went to
the far ends of Boston.
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