Exercise 6 – Punctuation: Colons, Semicolons, and Dashes

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Adapted from http://writing.eng.vt.edu/exercises/

In the following sentences, find the places where punctuation is undesired, is missing, or requires change. Mistakes include missing, unwanted, or misplaced colons, semicolons, parentheses, and quotation marks. Note that each sentence has at most one punctuation error. If no error exists, choose "No error." 

Attempts allowed: 1

Time limit: 10 mins