Exercise on Punctuation

·         The men in question: Harold Keene, Jim Peterson and Gerald Greene, deserve awards.

·         Several countries participated in the airlift: Italy, Belgium, France and Luxemburg.

·         Only once course was open to us: “surrender”, said the ex-major, and we did.

·         Judge Carswell, later to be nominated for the Supreme Court, had ruled against civil rights.

·         In last week´s New York, (one of my favorite magazines), I enjoyed reading Leland ´s article “How Not to Go Camping”.

·         “Yes”, Jim said, “I´ll be home by ten”.

·         There was only one thing to do; study till dawn.

·         Montaigne wrote the following: “A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself”.

·         The following are the primary colors: red, blue and yellow.

·         Arriving on the 8:10 plane were Liz Brooks, my old roommate, her husband and Tim, their son.

·         When the teacher commented that her spelling was poor, Lynn replied: “All the members of my family are poor spellers. Why not me?”

·         He used the phrase you know, so often that I finally said: “No, I don’t know”.

·         The automobile dealer handled three makes of cars: Volkswagens, Porches and Mercedes Benz.

·         Though Phil said he would arrive on the 9:19 flight, he came instead on the 10:36 flight.

·         “Whoever thought”, said Helen, “that Jack would be elected class president?”

·         In baseball, a show boat is a man who shows off.

·         The minister quoted Isaiah 5:21 in last Sunday´s sermon.

·         The4re was an interesting article entitled “The New Rage for Folk Singing” in last Sunday´s New York Times newspaper.

·         “Whoever is elected secretary of the club: Ashley, Chandras or Aisha, must be prepared to do a great deal of work”, said Jumita, the previous secretary.

·         Darwin´s “On the Origin of Species” 1859, caused a great controversy when it appeared.

·         We had a great time in France; the kids really enjoyed it.

·         Some people work best in the mornings; others do better in the evenings.

·         What are you doing next weekend?

·         Mother had to go into hospital; she had heart problems.

·         Did you understand why I was upset?

·         It is a fine idea, let us hope that it is going to work.

·         We will be arriving on Monday morning; at least I think so.

·         A textbook can be a wall between teacher and class.

·         The girls gather sat in a corner.

·         In the words of Murphy: “Law Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”.