The following sentences lack necessary periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas, semicolons, and colons. Rewrite each sentence, inserting the correct punctuation
1. Some turtles live on land,others live in lakes streams or oceans.
2. Faced with a threat, it crawls into a narrow crack in a rock, takes a deep breath, and wedges itself in tightly.
3. Because some species of tortoises are endangered, they cannot be sold as pets.
4. The gopher tortoise lives in the Southeast, and the desert tortoise comes from the Southwest.
5. Is the Indian star tortoise, which is now an endangered species,
very rare?
6. As this kind of tortoise grows older, its shell grows larger, the number of stars on the shell increases, and their pattern becomes more complex.
7. Living in fresh water, soft-shelled turtles have long, flexible beaks,and fleshy lips.
8. Their shells are not really soft however, but are covered by smooth skin.
9. Sea turtles are the fastest turtles; the green turtle can swim at speeds of almost twenty miles per hour.
10. Mr. Kim, my neighbor up the street, has several turtles in his backyard pond.
1. No. You have made it a comma splice.
2. OK
3. OK
4. OK
5. OK
6. OK
7. one too many commas
8. one missing comma
9. OK
10. OK
1. Some turtles live on land, others live in lakes, streams, or oceans.
2. Faced with a threat, it crawls into a narrow crack in a rock, takes a deep breath, and wedges itself in tightly.
3. Because some species of tortoises are endangered, they cannot be sold as pets.
4. The gopher tortoise lives in the Southeast, and the desert tortoise comes from the Southwest.
5. Is the Indian star tortoise, which is now an endangered species, very rare?
6. As this kind of tortoise grows older, its shell grows larger, the number of stars on the shell increases, and their pattern becomes more complex.
7. Living in fresh water, soft-shelled turtles have long, flexible beaks and fleshy lips.
8. Their shells are not really soft; however, they are covered by smooth skin.
9. Sea turtles are the fastest turtles; the green turtle can swim at speeds of almost twenty miles per hour.
10. Mr. Kim, my neighbor up the street, has several turtles in his backyard pond.