Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Four Punctuation Demonstration Sentences
Choose four different sentences from your persuasive essay or travel article and revise them to include the following: a dash used to introduce; dashes used to enclose; parenthesis to enclose; semicolon to combine. Post your sentences at the blog before class.
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Dash to introduce:
Yet everyone rides—white haired grandmothers, guys in suits, women in mini skirts and heels.
Dash to enclose:
Often, I watched multiple passengers offer help quickly—to the old, to mothers with bulky strollers—in a way that seemed natural and routine.
Parenthesis to enclose:
Visitors buy an hourly pass, available in one day increments (24, 48 hours and so on), to match the duration of a stay.
Semicolon to combine:
Every day we juggled cameras and scarves, tickets and tram passes; every day we experienced the kindness of Amsterdam’s citizens.
From essay “Global Deception about Global Warming”.
Dash to Introduce:
It is not a yellow and peaceful sphere, yet its snarling beast irradiated innumerable quantity of stream-melted particles; all human energy is nothing comparing to it – the Sun.
Dash to enclose:
They are always trying to find something to make a panic – global nip in 1960th, ozone holes in 1970th, Gulfstream will disappear – in order to be financed.
Parenthesis to enclose:
We are forced that our factories and cars generate CO2 creating a problem; but again (in 1800th CO2 was ten times higher then now) it works against the facts.
Semicolon to combine:
The truth is that Global Warming is not a scientific proven theory; it is a powerful instrument in political hands.
A dash to introduce:
It is a serious problem today—people who have become addicted to the internet.
Parenthesis to enclose:
Hawaii had some beautiful beaches, especially the black sand beach (caused by the erosion of volcanic rock), which was worth the drive to see.
Semicolon to combine:
Everyday my family and I would watch the sunsets in Hawaii; each sunset was different from the last one.
A dash to enclose:
The lady from Hawaii left me and my family with gifts — the beautiful jewelry she gave us as souvenirs — that we will never forget.
Dash to Introduce:
I think 16 years old are not enough mature to —make their life decisions, ability to understand things more wisely, and can think for their best future.
Dash to enclose:
Every parent, also think that they have less stress —to pick up and drop off their children— so they have enough time to do other things.
Parenthesis to enclose:
In the plane, I was watching the Bollwood movie (Indian movie), enjoying my first ride on the plane.
Semicolon to combine:
Every morning brings new exciting day for me; I embraced many new things from Canada’s culture.
Dash to introduce:
However, according to the brain researchers in the National Institute of Health-they have discovered that the teenagers brain is not fully developed until after the teen years.
Dash to enclose:
Raising the driving age will decrease the amount of pollution in the air-we will have a clean air to breath-it will also help teenagers become healthier.
Parenthesis to enclose:
The increase age of driving will make the road safer (not only for other drivers but also for the cyclist and the pedestrian sharing the road), this will save peoples lives.
Semicolon to combine:
Teenagers drivers represent 7% of the total drivers population; teenagers involved in car crashes are the cause of 20% of the accident.
Dash to introduce:
Inside of the cars are fully decorated- myriad of advertisements.
Dash to enclose:
In Japan, vending machines are everywhere, and anything- pop, juice, alcohol, cigarette, disposable cameras, tissue, snacks, ice cream, instant noodles, rice, traffic tickets, and meal tickets, and even condom- is thinkable.
Parenthesis to enclose:
I heard that a young man posted his very private photos (some kind of embarrassing stuff on the part of his body) on his board, and that made him finally lost an opportunity after a job interview.
Semicolon to combine + Parenthesis to enclose:
Some are reading their books (covered with plant paper cover to keep the book secret, so nobody knows what the book is) or newspaper; some are listening to their ipods (with earphones) or working on their laptops.
Dash to introduce
They hide themselves, creating new identifies show everywhere—chatting room, online role-playing game, Blog.
Dash to enclose
They feel like no one in their “real” life—even their intimate friends and family—understand them like their online friends.
Parenthesis to enclose
Internet addiction likes other addiction (drug, pornography, and gambling) become a social problem.
Semicolon to combine
Many Internet addicts are attracted the new, fresh virtually world; they take too much time to concentration with the internet, whereas they are isolating their family members and friends, neglecting their work or study, and other important things.
Dash to introduce:
We tasted several dim sum dishes — shrimp and vegetable dumplings in Taipei.
Dash to enclose:
In addition, we went to the snake market-- you could choose the snake you wanted to eat –that we were afraid of tasting them.
Parenthesis to enclose
Taroko National Park (19 km long canyon) was cut quite wide by the river running between its two sides, located near Taiwan’s east coast.
Semicolon to combine:
Taipei 101 was the world's tallest building at the time we visited Taiwan's capital city; we enjoyed seeing the tall skyscraper lit up at night.
Semicolon to combine:
Because of Internet addiction, students gave no time to school courses, they failed and quit from school; Because of Internet addition, workers could not do their jobs efficiently, the waiting fate was to be fired; Because of Internet addiction, young people are careless and been cared, they gradually get isolated from real world.
Dash to introduce:
The nickname of Kunming is “Spring City”--its temperatures are mild in four seasons.
Dash to enclose:
In China, the Cyber bars are everywhere, and the fee is extremely cheap--just $2/hr in China Yuan (about $0.3CAD).
Parenthesis to enclose:
This survey result (carried by the China Youth Association for Network Development) clearly showed that students waste their flourishing childhood on Internet: 47.9% of young people play online games; 23.2% of them watch cartoons, movies, or download music.
A dash used to introduce:
One pilot answered – it was tornado.
Dashes used to enclose:
A big Christmas tree decorated with huge white flowers - instead of Christmas toys - stood in the middle of the no-walls hall.
Parenthesis to enclose:
At the airport, actually a modern building (concrete walls and palm-tree leaves roof - what a modern combination!), we were waiting in a line to go through customs, listening to loud announcements in Spanish, English, and - you would not believe - in Russian.
Semicolon to combine:
The bus was crawling in complete darkness for half an hour groping along the narrow road without any lightening posts; then eventually brought us to the brightly illuminated (built with the same a bit shocking modern technology: concrete walls with palm-tree-leaves roofs) resort.
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