Creative Editing

Chapter 2

Exercise 12

12. Edit the following sentences to punctuate them correctly. Pay particular attention to the correct use of dashes, exclamation points and hyphens.

a. She announced that newly developed tests would be used during the upcoming tournament to detect drug using athletes.

b. A 4 foot boa constrictor a scary tarantula and a baby Bengal tiger gave Joey Black a front line education about zoos.

c. "Bring back tax incentives" Jones [headline]

d. Every state has reported influenza activity except New Hampshire and Rhode Island with three states New York Connecticut and New Mexico listing widespread outbreaks.

e. Bob Woodward wrote "VEIL The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981 1987.

f. Gosh It will be a 15 to 20 minute procedure and I don't think I can lie still that long.

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