2C Write your own proverbs, for example:

Full stops are like release from prison: they come at the end of a sentence.

Studying English is like ____________ :_________________ .

Life is like _______________ :________________________ .

Truth is like _______________ :_______________________ .

F ashion is like ______________ : _____________________ .

Money is like ____________ : ____________________ .

Food is like ___________ : ___________________ .

3C

Use commas and colons where they are appropriate.

1. I’d like to have Indian or North African food for lunch.

2. Two restaurants near campus serve North African dishes the Cairo House and the Marrakesh.

3. Jorge Peter Anna and I had dinner at the Marrakesh last week.

4. The Marrakesh is closed three days each week Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays.

5. We are going to lose the game our best player is in the hospital.

6. Listen to what I heard today our teacher has a black belt in karate.

4C

Add commas and colons where appropriate to these sentences:

1. Rosewall no longer had the strength and energy of his youth and so his game became more economical nothing was wasted.

2. The string quartet I play with comprises two violins a viola and a cello but my jazz quartet has rather an unusual lineup double bass violin piano and tenor saxophone.

3. But now after a bath a change of clothes and a drink the thought returned to me how was Foxton going to react when he found that I had escaped?

4. I’ve just decided to emigrate to Canada it sounds like the perfect solution.

5. There are four things we would need to know more about before we could offer you a job we would need to question you further about your education your family background your experience and your plans for the future.

5C

Insert a colon as needed in each of the following sentences:

1. All the poisonous snakes known to North America were in residence there rattlers, copperheads, cottonmouths, and corals. (Tom Wolfe)

2. When an old woman in a nursing home was asked what she really liked to do, she answered in one word “Eat.” (Malcolm Cowley)

3. After all, turkey tastes very similar to haddock same consistency, same quite remarkable absence of flavor. (Michael J. Arlen)

4. The Fifth Amendment is, of course, a wise section of the Constitution you cannot be forced to incriminate yourself. (Lillian Hellman)

5. Almost anything can trigger a specific attack of migraine stress, allergy, fatigue, and abrupt change in barometric pressure, a contretemps over a parking ticket. (Joan Didion)

THE DASH

1. Abrupt Break in Thought.

Use a dash to indicate an abrupt break in thought.

The way the argument started was stupid – but why bring it up again? – the problem has been settled. A majority of the graduating class – fifteen percent, in fact – is going on to higher education.

Similarly, a dash or dashes are used to set off an interruption that is important to the meaning of the sentence but not grammatically part of it:

It matters not where or how far you travel - the farther commonly the worse - but how much alive you are. (Henry David Thoreau)