Question

Punctuate the following sentences using colons, semicolons, apostrophes, and quotation marks where needed. Some sentences need more than one mark added to be corrected. I was planning to take three courses basic math, speech, and choir. It is supposed to snow today bring a warm winter coat. Uncle Jefferson offered me some advice travel while youre still young. Margarita was happy her grades were even better than she had hoped. Tomas whispered, I just heard Father say, We are giving your brother a surprise party. Jerome took more than 200 photographs of the museums mummy display.

Answer 1

A colon after the word courses, since it precedes a list. A semicolon after today since it separates related ideas. A colon after advice. Double Quotes around travel while you’re still young. An apostrophe in youre. Semicolon after happy. Double Quotations around I just heard father say, We are giving your brother a surprise party. Single Quotations around We are giving your brother a surprise party because it is a quote inside a quote. An apostrophe after the second m in museum, indicating possession of the mummy display by the museum.