The following sentences use the punctuation marks presented in Chapter 52 very effectively. Read the sentences carefully; then choose one, and use it as a model for writing a sentence of your own, making sure to use the punctuation marks in the same way in your sentence.
—GARRISON KEILLOR, “Happy to Be Here”
The dad was—
—BRIGID BROPHY, “Women”
Not only are the distinctions we draw between male nature and female nature largely arbitrary and often pure superstition: they are completely beside the point.—BRIGID BROPHY, “Women”
—NIGELLA LAWSON, How to Eat
If no one, including you, liked the soup the first time round (and that’s why you’ve got so much left over), there is no point in freezing it for some hopeful future date when, miraculously, it will taste delicious. But bagging leftovers—