Review: Identifying Punctuation Errors
Indicate whether each sentence is punctuated correctly or incorrectly.
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I wrote letters to: my aunt, the cable company, and my close friend Bernice who moved to Boston four years ago.
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"Can working with a computer really improve one's writing?" they asked.
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They read they studied and they reviewed, yet they could not define the term `onomatopoeia' on the English exam.
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Children sometimes knock at the Wilsons' door, as if taunting the couple to show themselves, but neither the old man nor his sister ever answers.
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We cancelled our subscription to the magazine after it ran a homophobic article; likewise, a number of our friends boycotted the publication.
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My sister's skin used to be as smooth as a childs.
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Aaron asked the counsellor if there were many job opportunities for music teachers and if he would have to leave the province to get a good position?
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They wanted very badly to see Peter Weirs new film, but fate in the form of the year's worst snowstorm intruded.
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How could the rent review administrators have made such a decision, and how will your landlord live with himself?
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"Take me with you," she said. "This little town and it's little people are more than I can bear, but I know everything will be different in New York".
Written by Frances Peck