Unit
Test 4: Section D
Using
Colons, (Or How to Digest One More Grammatical Concept)
Read the following section in your Bedford Handbook
before you start the exercises:
Section 35. Yes, all of it!
Also, make sure to try out some of the practice problems online with the Hacker website (Dave’s email
is david-holper@redwood.edu for the login). Then go to Punctuation and do
all the exercises under Colons.
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Practice
Problems:
1)
We had learned all that our brains could hold, such as: how not to make
mistakes with colons.
2)
His brain's two halves consisted of: the forgotten part and the part he was
still trying to remember.
3)
TV is like candy, it causes cavities in your brain to form.
4)
Robin sorted the children into two groups, the runny noses and the burpers.
5)
Some important vitamins are: X, Y, Z.