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igor_vitrenko [27]
2 years ago
9

Can somebody Help me fix the punctuation on this please highlight everything you fixed

English
1 answer:
Ber [7]2 years ago
6 0

To correct the text you will need to add commas, apostrophes, and periods.

<h3>Sentences that need to be corrected:</h3>
  • The sentence "Jules Verne, a Frenchman and a lawyer" needs a comma before the word "and."
  • The sentence "Even more than a century after the authors birth" needs to replace the words "authors" with "author's."
  • The sentence "Verne was a dreamer and writer" must end with a period.
  • The sentence "[...] efforts was a children's story entitled. "A Trip in a Balloon." must delete the period after the word "entitled" and add a quotation mark after the period that follows the word "balloon ."
  • The sentence "Isnt this remarkable, since 17" should replace the word "Isnt" with "Isn't."
  • The sentence "he was born in 1828 and died in 1905" must begin with a capital letter.
  • The sentence "[...] rocket ships and submarines" must have a period after the word "submarines."
  • The sentence "realization of his marvelous visions" must add a period after the word "visions."
  • The sentence "The space explorations although not a 23." must replace the period with a comma.
  • The sentence "[...] direct result of Vernes vision" should replace the word "Vernes" with Verne's."

The change of punctuation of the text must be done to guarantee coherence and fluidity, allowing the reader to understand the subject that the author wants to express.

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