Replace the Missing Punctuation

 

Type an excerpt—a paragraph or two, double-spaced—from any literature, excluding a specific punctuation mark you want to review or, if your student is ready for more extensive editing, removing all punctuation marks.  Instruct your student to be the editor, inserting the proper punctuation marks where appropriate. Compare with the original.

An Example from Johnny Tremain, page 43, without punctuation:

Weeks wore on September was ending a large part of every day Johnny spent doing what he called looking for work’ he did not really want to follow any trade but his own he looked down on soap-boilers leather-dressers ropemakers and such he did not begin his hunt along Hancock’s Wharf and Fish Street where he and his story were well known and the masters would have been apt to employ him from pity he went to the far ends of Boston

An Example from Johnny Tremain, page 43, with punctuation:

Weeks wore on. September was ending.  A large part of every day Johnny spent doing what he called ‘looking for work.’ He did not really want to follow any trade but his own. He looked down on soap-boilers, leather-dressers, ropemakers, and such. He did not begin his hunt along Hancock’s Wharf and Fish Street, where he and his story were well known and the masters would have been apt to employ him from pity. He went to the far ends of Boston.