Answers to Exercises
Quotation Marks and Underlining, pp. 346-48

What if my answers are correct?
If you find that all your answers match these, then the your punctuation skills are satisfactory.  Congratulations!

What if my answers are incorrect?
If you find that some of your answers don't match these, then continue to study the rules for quotation marks and underlining.

Answers to Using Quotation Marks Correctly, p. 346

  1. Last week we read “The Lottery,” a short story by Shirley Jackson.
  2. Last week we read “The Lottery”; this week we are reading “A & P,” a short story by John Updike.
  3. “The only thing we have to fear,” Franklin Roosevelt said, “is fear itself.”
  4. Natasha asked if we were going to the concert without her.
  5. Natasha asked, “Are you going to the concert without me?”
  6. Uncle Gus said, “I once heard your aunt singing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ out behind the barn at three o’clock in the morning.”
  7. “It doesn’t much signify whom one marries,” Samuel Rogers wrote, “for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.”
  8. Did Nelda ask you to play “Chopsticks” for her on the piano?


Answers to Exercise on Punctuating Sentences Correctly, p. 346 (a little bit of everything)

  1. The bear rears back, his jaws agape, and slowly spins on his feet as if in a gentle dance.
  2. Music has always had a visual element of a sort: the images that the listener sees in his mind’s eye when a favorite song or symphony comes on.
  3. More than 1,800 miles of ocean dams and inland dikes protect the Netherlands; without them nearly two-thirds of the country would be inundated twice daily by the tides.
  4. One of the many talents lost in this increasingly technological age is that of putting pen to paper in order to communicate with family, friends, and lovers.
  5. In the old days, about fifteen years ago, I could sit down in front of my television on a Sunday afternoon in the fall and spend a few relaxing hours watching a professional football game; but those days are gone.
  6. I was flying cross-country recently when a woman occupying the seat next to me asked, “Do you mind if I smoke?”
  7. Harbor Springs is now a summer resort for the very affluent, but a hundred years ago it was the Indian village of my Ottawa ancestors.
  8. Women who work outside the home, whether by choice or by need, do not deserve to feel the anxiety, guilt, and exhaustion that they do.
  9. When a friend dies, part of yourself dies too.
  10. We took photographs of a statue of the patron saint of nail-biters—the Venus de Milo.


Answers to Exercise on Punctuating Paragraphs, p. 347

Lost in the Witchcrafted Woods

         I’ll never forget summer camp—two weeks of cramps and campfires and slugs in my underwear.  One night I got lost in the woods—the witchcrafted, spinetingling woods.  I don’t know how I managed to get lost; one moment I was marching along with my fellow scouts, and the next I was marching alone.  When I realized what had happened, I responded like a true Boy Scout of America: I sat down on a toadstool and sobbed.  Oh, I knew I  was going to die out there.  I waited for the gnats that sew your lips shut, the owls that peck out your eyes, the spiders that drop eggs on your tongue, and the wolves that drag you to their dens.  I knew that by the time they found me, there would be nothing left of me but my neckerchief slide.  I imagined them taping it to a postcard and mailing it home to my dad.  When I ran out of tears, I started singing, “Oh, they built the ship Titanic to sail the ocean blue.”  And just then a flashlight found me.  My patrol leader asked me what I was doing out here in the woods, and I said, “Don’t worry about me.  I can take care of myself.”  That night I dreamed of dragons in the pines, and I woke up screaming.
 

Answers to Exercise on Underlining Words and Phrases, p. 348

  1. I have never seen Gone with the Wind, but I have read the novel.
  2. I subscribe to Time, Ebony, and National Geographic.
  3. I am not sure how to pronounce the bathos.
  4. Last night we saw The Glass Menagerie performed at the Roxy Playhouse.
  5. My favorite quiz show is Jeopardy.
  6. I rarely watch the news on television; I prefer to read the newspaper.
  7. Professor Legree assigned three chapters in our textbook, The History of Western Culture and Civilization.
  8. Have you ever read the Frost poem “Mending Wall”?
  9. Although the reruns are over twenty-five years old, Fred’s favorite television program is still the original Star Trek.
  10. The words okay, all right, and nice have been overworked to death.


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