Punctuation Worksheet


Directions: Punctuate the following excerpts and correct capitalization where necessary.


1. She looked surprised she said your garden must be big he said that it is and he had plans to make it bigger he took the ladder out of the garage he set it up in the garden room when he was on the ladder he could reach the top of the walls now he could have trees in his garden he grew a pear tree and a walnut tree he made vines to hang from the branches it rained one night and he lay awake my garden will be gone he thought but it was not gone only a few vegetables washed away



2. This must be where she lost my present and was looking for it sludge sniffed the snow i looked in the snow for a package or the snow print of a package but the snow next to the sled marks was unbroken i nate the great was puzzled how could something drop off the sled and not be in the snow or leave a mark in the snow there were no footprints either




3. Winston is one of the most laid back people i know he is tall and slim with black hair and he always wears a t shirt and black jeans his jeans have holes in them and his baseball boots are scruffy too he usually sits at the back of the class and he often seems to be asleep however when the exam results are given out he always gets an a i dont think hes as lazy as he appears to be



4. Now i stared at this sudden apparition with my eyes fairly starting out of my head in astonishment remember i had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited region and yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear nothing about him game any suggestion of a child lost in the middle of the desert a thousand miles from any human habitation when at last i was able to speak i said to him but what are you doing here and in answer he repeated very slowly as if he were speaking of a matter of great consequence if you please draw me a sheep when a mystery is too overpowering one dare not disobey absurd as it might seem to be a thousands miles from any human habitation and in danger of death i took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountain pen but then i remembered how my studies had been concentrated on geography history arithmetic and grammar and i told the little chap a little crossly too that i did not know how to draw and he answered me that doesnt matter draw me a sheep




5. Lord henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy opium tainted cigarette not send it anywhere my dear fellow why have you any reason what odd chaps you painters are you do anything in the world to gain a reputation as soon as you have one you seem to want to throw it away it is silly of you for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about a portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in england and make the old men quite jealous if old me are ever capable of any emotion i know you will laugh at me he replied but i really cant exhibit it i have put too much of myself into it lord henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed yes i knew you would but it is quite true all the same


Thanks for any help it is greatly appreciated. :)