Lesson Three Homework

Lesson Three Punctuation Homework





Part I

1. “Could you please turn that music down,” Mother groaned.

2. The police detective said to the reporters, “The criminal responsible for shooting several people is not in custody.  He is awaiting trial.”

3. “Just what direction did she go?” asked Diane’s father.

4. Momentarily, the Hillbilly Burglar is still at large, warned Grandfather.

5. Did you say you picked up syrup, break, sugar, lunch meat and cookies?



Part II

Actually four of them were from one section of the first lesson.  I was always seesawing between periods or no periods in these situations.

Four Rules for Irregular Abbreviations



A two-letter state abbreviation, used only before a zip code, has no periods and has both letters of the abbreviation in upper case (caps).



Ex. Bethesda, MD 20816



Abbreviations for government agencies and some other widely used abbreviations again use all capital letters and no periods.



Ex. CIA, NAACP, CPS, FBI, CSI, CEO



Abbreviations for metric units of measure customarily use no periods but are lower case.



Ex. cc, ml, km



When an abbreviation with a period ends a sentence, the second period is not necessary, but a question mark or exclamation point would follow the period required by the abbreviation.1



Ex. Is this Sam, Jr.?

Ex. Is Sabatino a Dr.?





I’m not sure how often this comes up in my writing, but I did find this one helpful.

8. Use the semicolon to separate units of a series when one or more of the units contain commas.

Ex. This conference has people who have come from Boise, Idaho; Los Angeles, California; and Nashville, Tennessee.2