Question

Read the following and correct the excerpt in the paragraph box for punctuation.

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

The excerpt correctly punctuated is:

It is difficult to determine whose outlook was more bleak. (1)As Lawrence states, Poe had a pretty bitter doom  (2) -- he had performed some of the bitterest tasks of human experience. (3)He is reducing his own self as a scientist reduces salt in a crucible. (4)But it is Lawrence himself that speculates: "the human soul must suffer its own isintegration, consciously, if ever it is to survive."

1. A comma is necessary to separate the two clauses.

2. Em dash replaces parenthesis at the end of the sentence.

3. End of sentence needed a peiod/stop.

4. The use of the colon is follwed by the sentence that explains the first sentence.