assignment writing 1

WRITING I
ASSIGMENT I (PUNCTUATION)


Exercise I
Put the appropriate punctuation in the following sentences.
1. Can you name a play by William Shakespeare?
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2. The pilot boarded the plane checked her instruments and prepared for takeoff.
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3. Gendis’ books are stolen.
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4. My favorite sports are the following: basketball, fencing, golf, and diving.
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5. Ayat-Ayat Cinta is watched by more than two billions people.
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6. Semarang is large and modern; it is also historic and peaceful.
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7. Are you surprised asked Mr. Sulistiyo?
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8. They have to do their homework!
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9. Congress may overrule a president’s veto by a two third majority.
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10. What a beautiful girl she is!
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Exercise II
Put the correct punctuation on each of the sentence below.
1. Recently, the number of service enterprises in wealthier free-market economies has grown rapidly.
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2. Subsequently the aircraft underwent numerous design changes before it was incorporated into the Type 4 jet aircraft.
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3. To visit his brother, he drove through the night.
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4. After dinner, he walked around the town.
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5. Although it might seem highly unlikely, there are considerable similarities between the male and female body.
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6. Similar feelings influenced middle-class shareholders and directors too.
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7. When the activity of our kidneys is considered a bed-time drink does not waken us.
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8. By filling our bladders during the night.
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9. Because stocks are generally negotiable stockholders have the right to assign or transfer their shares to another individual.
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Exercise III
1. The province 75 school districts are administered by locally elected boards.
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2. Modern estimates of England total population vary between 1 and 3 million.
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3. Two years earlier, The Economist had described gambling, as Britain second biggest industry.
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4. The annual per capita consumption of sugar, between the Queen accession and 1860, rose to 54 lb. in 1870-99 and 85 lb. in 1900-10.
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5. Newly married, neatly permed and wearing the very latest in expensive Western wedding garb, they head for the groom sleek sports car under a hail of rice.
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6. By then Leonardo expertise with paint brush and palette, pen and pencil was already well advanced.
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7. In contrast to the all-inclusiveness of other countries socialised medical services, 40m Americans have no coverage at all.
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8. The intention of this new alliance is to make the fight against the administration policy on cryptography a populist issue and to derail potentially threatening legislation.
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9. Hemp environmental credentials are indisputable.
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10. The third and main reason is the process of extracting fibre from the plant stem.
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Exercise III
Capitalization
1. My aunt is planning to visit us, but Uncle Clark can't come.
2. How many nations are members of the United Nations?
3. He complained that the Democratic Party wasn't really democratic.
4. We loved to go down to the river when we were children although we didn't even know its name was the Hudson River.
5. On the day after Labor Day children go back to school.
6. I turned west, when I should have turned east.
7. I'm taking history 101, english 100, french 200, and psychology 309.
8. I like history and english, but I find french and psychology difficult.
9. During my high school days, I spent a lot of time on athletics and later won a letter in baseball from xavier university.
10. I subscribe to newsweek and sports illustrated.
11. I have never before had a professor, who makes things as clear as does professor roth.
12. The grace lutheran church is one of the most beautiful church buildings in the city.
13. I'm taking math, english, psychology, and art history.
14. She went to college in the south, and then went to a graduate school in the east.
15. I bought some bonds of central vermont public service company because, I think it's a good company.
16. The woolworth building is one of the tallest buildings in the city.
17. A college president has a tough job today, according to president reiss.
18. All of the senators listened to the explanation by senator leahy.
19. I think dad is coming to the play, and perhaps my cousin and my sister will come too.
20. He celebrated on the fourth of july, but had to get back to work on the fifth.