1. The following students gave reports Carlos Sue and Alan
2. Tanay carved this beautiful soapstone cooking pot
3. Walter this is Ellen w ho has transferred to our school
4. Calling Simon’s name I ran to the door
5. The Wilsons’ new address is 3100 DeSoto St New Orleans LA 70119-3251
6. Have you listened to that podcast Felix
7. Let me know of course if you can’t attend
8. Joy our club president will conduct the meeting an d Gary
our recently elected secretary will take notes
9. Looking at the harsh bright glare Mai closed the blinds
10. Carlos Montoya picked up the guitar positioned his fingers
an d strum m ed a few chords of a flamenco song
The following sentences lack necessary periods, question marks,
exclamation points, commas, semicolons, and colons. Write each
sentence, inserting the correct punctuation.
1. The following students gave reports:Carlos, Sue, and Alan.
2. Tanay carved this beautiful, soapstone cooking pot.
3. Walter, this is Ellen, who has transferred to our school.
4. Calling Simon’s name, I ran to the door.
5. The Wilsons’ new address is 3100 DeSoto St., New Orleans, LA 70119-3251.
6. Have you listened to that podcast, Felix?
7. Let me know, of course, if you can’t attend.
8. Joy, our club president, will conduct the meeting; and Gary,
our recently elected secretary, will take notes.
9. Looking at the harsh, bright glare, Mai closed the blinds.
10. Carlos Montoya picked up the guitar, positioned his fingers,
and strummed a few chords of a flamenco song.
The second comma is not needed in 3.
http://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/non-defining-relative-clauses/
8. also has an error.
1. The following students gave reports: Carlos, Sue, and Alan.
2. Tanay carved this beautiful, soapstone cooking pot.
3. Walter, this is Ellen, who has transferred to our school.
4. Calling Simon’s name, I ran to the door.
5. The Wilsons’ new address is 3100 DeSoto St., New Orleans, LA 70119-3251.
6. Have you listened to that podcast, Felix?
7. Let me know, of course, if you can’t attend.
8. Joy, our club president, will conduct the meeting; and Gary, our recently elected secretary, will take notes.
9. Looking at the harsh, bright glare, Mai closed the blinds.
10. Carlos Montoya picked up the guitar, positioned his fingers, and strummed a few chords of a flamenco song.
To properly punctuate the sentences, you need to follow some rules of punctuation. Here's how you can punctuate each sentence:
1. The following students gave reports: Carlos, Sue, and Alan.
- Add a colon after "reports" to introduce the list of names.
- Use commas to separate the names in the list.
2. Tanay carved this beautiful, soapstone cooking pot.
- Add a comma after "beautiful" to separate "beautiful" and "soapstone."
3. Walter, this is Ellen, who has transferred to our school.
- Add a comma after "Walter" to separate the name from the rest of the sentence.
- Add a comma after "Ellen" to separate the name from the relative clause.
4. Calling Simon’s name, I ran to the door.
- Add a comma after "name" to separate the participial phrase from the main clause.
5. The Wilsons’ new address is 3100 DeSoto St., New Orleans, LA 70119-3251.
- Add a comma after "St." to separate the street name from the city and state.
- Add a comma after "New Orleans" to separate the city from the state.
6. Have you listened to that podcast, Felix?
- Add a comma after "podcast" to separate the direct address from the rest of the sentence.
- Add a question mark at the end of the sentence to indicate it is a question.
7. Let me know, of course, if you can’t attend.
- Add a comma after "know" to indicate a brief pause.
- Add a comma after "course" to separate it from the rest of the sentence.
8. Joy, our club president, will conduct the meeting; and Gary, our recently elected secretary, will take notes.
- Add a comma after "Joy" to separate the name from additional information.
- Add a comma after "president" to separate it from the rest of the sentence.
- Add a semicolon after "meeting" to separate the two independent clauses.
- Add a comma after "Gary" to separate the name from additional information.
- Add a comma after "secretary" to separate it from the rest of the sentence.
9. Looking at the harsh, bright glare, Mai closed the blinds.
- Add a comma after "harsh" to separate the adjectives.
- Add a comma after "bright" to separate the adjectives.
10. Carlos Montoya picked up the guitar, positioned his fingers, and strummed a few chords of a flamenco song.
- Add a comma after "guitar" to separate the actions being described.
- Add a comma after "fingers" to separate the actions being described.