EXERCISE 34–5 The semicolon and the comma
Select the correct mark of punctuation in the parentheses. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to see your score and item-by-item explanations; your activity will be recorded in your instructor's gradebook.
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Success didn’t spoil me ( , / ; ) I’ve always been insufferable. —Fran Lebowitz
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When a woman behaves like a man ( , / ; ) why doesn’t she behave like a nice man? —Edith Evans
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Don’t talk about yourself ( , / ; ) it will be done when you leave. —Wilson Mizner
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We’ve had trickle-down economics in the country for ten years now ( , / ; ) and most of us are not even damp. —Molly Ivins
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I do not rule Russia ( , / ; ) ten thousand clerks do. —Nicholas I
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The only sensible ends of literature are first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends ( , / ; ) and lastly, the solid cash. —Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Experience is the best teacher ( , / ; ) it gives the test before presenting the lesson. —Vernon Law
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There’s no money in poetry (, / ;) but there’s no poetry in money either. —Robert Graves
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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right ( , / ; ) a single experiment can prove me wrong. —Albert Einstein
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When money speaks ( , / ; ) the truth keeps silent. —Russian proverb
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