Writing under the name of 'Diedrich Knickerbocker', Washington Irving aimed his political satire, at as diverse topics as political rivals such as; Thomas Jefferson, to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately.
Explanation:
Punctuations are the marks, such as full stops, commas, colons, semi colons, hyphens, brackets, exclamation marks , question marks, Apostrophes etc, that are used to make a sentence more comprehensive and understandable.
Punctuations help bring out the meaning of the sentence clearly and fully to the readers.
Hyphens are used to join adjectives. Colons are used to connect two independent clauses. Full stops are used to show the sentence has come to an end.
Exclamation marks are used to denote the emotions of the person, while uttering the sentence.
So, punctuation marks are very important in writing a sentence without which a sentence does not have a clear meaning.
The first two are parallel: "Bernie not only forgot <u>his one-year anniversary with Rachel</u> but also <u>he missed his father's birthday</u>." His and the name of a person, as well as their special day, are mentioned in each of the underlined phrases. Although they do not sound the same and may not have the same number of words, the construction of meaning is the same and the number of syllables is roughly the same. In, "Stan is a <u>voracious reader</u>, an <u>expressive writer</u>, and a <u>skillful painter</u>." all the underlined things are exactly two words, a strong adjective, followed by a -er hobby/occupational word. This would be more so the organization of ideas, because each clause has a slightly different meaning due to the different connotations of the adjectives used.
Hope that clears it up for you so that you can do it yourself next time!
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,
There are as mad, abandon'd Criticks too.
And always List'ning to Himself appears.
All Books he reads, and all he reads assails,
From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Tales.""
