ENG2: PUNCTUATIONS ASSIGNMENT

1. Punctuate the following
2. no said the man i help you
3. john bring me my pen where is it its in your mothers bag
4. are you coming home i asked certainly not he replied
5. twelve years ago said propero i was duke of Milan
6. bring me my cup said john
7. musa said that he would go to school today
8. peter and tom have a pet cat
9. my goat is a nice animal
10. come here said my father
11. you were my best friend i told him
12. before eating food my eyes were glowing like a red charcoal
13. Punctuate the passage

margaret  met elizabeth  in the high street one day I say elizabeth she cried out what do you think I have just had a letter from the principal to say that I have been awarded a scholarship on the results of last terms examinations oh said elizabeth you are lucky i wish i could win a scholarship but i  am nearly always at the bottom of the form perhaps if you worked harder you might do a little better

1. Punctuate this short story correctly.

It was not long before officers came to look for me the captain‘s face first appeared in the door stop cried allan pointing his sword at him what do you mean he said this is not the way for a guest to act do you see this sword asked allan it has cut more Whig heads than you have toes on your feet call up your rats sir and attack I am ready the captain said nothing to allan but he looked at me cruelly david he said I shall remember this.

1. Punctuate the following, using normal punctuation
2. botany is the study of plants and zoology is the study of animals
3. a good pupil works quickly quietly and carefully
4. cocoa gold timber and diamonds are the chief exports
5. the first second and third received prizes
6. he used to give us either a few mangoes or if he was feeling particularly generous biscuits

1. Punctuate the following conversations and set them out properly, starting new line one inch from the margin for each new speech at last they came to the ministers own houses you have a fine store of wood in your compound said king Matthias who cut it for you the common people answered the minister and how much did you pay them asked the king they did it for nothing he replied they do such things for love oh said the king sharply but I have heard differently I have heard that you beat any one who asks for payme
2. the animals held a meeting to decide what to do the first person to speak was the antelope there is a ghost at the river he said we shall never be able to get any water I too have seen the ghost said the wolf nobody is braver than me declared the lion and even I ran away when I saw the ghost that interrupted the tortoise but you didn‘t see the ghost you only heard him what do you mean roared the lion angrily are you saying there is no ghost yes replied the tortoise.