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Assignment On Punctuation

The document contains 4 questions about punctuation. Question 1 asks to insert punctuation in a paragraph about a man's career details. Question 2 asks to correct inappropriate or missing punctuation in 8 sentences. Question 3 asks to punctuate a paragraph about people who think they are wise for seeing through past enthusiasms. Question 4 asks to punctuate a paragraph discussing using time saved by machines to become more civilized.

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Assignment On Punctuation

The document contains 4 questions about punctuation. Question 1 asks to insert punctuation in a paragraph about a man's career details. Question 2 asks to correct inappropriate or missing punctuation in 8 sentences. Question 3 asks to punctuate a paragraph about people who think they are wise for seeing through past enthusiasms. Question 4 asks to punctuate a paragraph discussing using time saved by machines to become more civilized.

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Assignment on Punctuation

Q. No. (1) Insert the punctuation marks in the following


paragraph: (10 marks)

Abdullah Yousaf Ali was sixty years old when he joined the Lahore
.He M.A.
Islamia College as the principal he was MA from Cambridge University ,
he was a member of the I.C.S
ICS ,he served with the Nizam of Hyderabad ,he
L.LM
was LLM from the university mentioned above,he was FRHSH ,his full
name when written was: yousaf ali ma llm ics-frsh .itIt was such a grand
name. Yousaf Ali, M.A., L.L.M., I.C.S, FRHSH

Q. No. (2) The punctuation marks used in the following


sentences are either inappropriate or missed out completely.
Correct them by replacing them or inserting the correct
punctuation: (10 marks)

(i) She entered the library, it was crowded with people, she didn’t
know any of them,and she wished she’d stayed at home,;she
felt so lonely.

(ii) Clive, who had just changed schools,found it difficult to adjust


to his new surroundings.

(iii) Because it was raining,we stayed inside.

(iv) I don’t like her dress ,do you?


(v) Don’t be quiet,Ali.
" "
(vi) She replied,I can’t.

(vii) There are three good reasons why you got lost,:you had no
map, it was dark ,and you have no sense of direction.

and
(viii) The storm clouds gathered ,the rain started to fall ,the thunder
rolled the lightning flashed.

(ix) Is it raining.?

(x) Long live the king.!

Q. No. (3) Insert the punctuation marks in the following


paragraph: (10 Marks)
It is common in our day as it has been in many other periods of
the world 's history to suppose that those among us who are
wise, have seen through all the enthusiasms of earlier times,and
have become aware that there is nothing left to live for.The
men who hold this view are genuinely unhappy,but they are
proud of their unhappiness ,which they attribute to the nature
of the universe and consider to be the only rational attitude for
an enlightened man .Their pride in their unhappiness makes less
sophisticated people suspicious of its genuineness they think
that the man who enjoys being miserable is not miserable .
Q. No. (4) Insert the punctuation marks in the following
paragraph: (10 Marks)
"
And this brings me to the point at which I asked ,What do we
do with all the time which the machines have saved for us,and
the new energy they have given us .On the whole, it must be
admitted,;we do very little. For the most part we use our time
and energy to make more and better machines ,but more and
better machines will only give us still more time and still more
energy, and what are we to do with them.The answer I think is
that we should try to become mere civilized .For the machines
themselves and the power which the machines have given us
are not civilization ,but aids to civilization .But you will
remember that we agreed at the beginning ,that being civilized
meant making and linking beautiful things .

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