Handbook: Writing Problems and How to Correct Them

EXERCISE 11.1, Correcting Errors in End Punctuation

EXERCISE 11.1

Correcting Errors in End Punctuation

Correct any errors in the use of end punctuation marks in the following sentences. Some sentences may be correct as written.

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1. When the daughters of Queen Victoria of England, who carried the gene for hemophilia, married royalty in Germany and Russia, those royal families inherited hemophilia as well?

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2. The Russian czar’s only son and heir to the throne suffered from hemophilia.

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3. You might ask if internal bleeding can occur when a hemophiliac receives a bruise?

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4. Czar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra often saw their little boy in terrible pain!

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5. A phony monk named Rasputin eased the child’s pain, but was he a gifted healer or just a con man.