Examine the following examples of texts. Indicate the type of reading text they are.

1. Men in great places are thrice servants:

servants of the sovereign or state,
servants of fame, and servants of business
“Of Great Place”
2. NASA is proposing another space project. The agency’s budget request, announced today, included a
plan to send another person to the moon.
3. Those that have tenacity will not quit when confronted by obstacles or when failing. In a game or in
life, tenacity wants to win, and tenacity lives by the credo, “Failure is not an option."
4. Three passions (simple but overwhelmingly strong) have governed my life: the longing for love, the
search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
5. Director Steven Spielberg launched a Germany-wide contest Sunday designed to promote tolerance
through students’ intercultural interaction
6. If you can dream – and not make your dreams your master;
7. An earthquake is a shaking or rolling movement of great masses of rocks on
the earth’s uppermost layer or crust.

Punctuation Marks

1. Place a period at the close of every declarative sentence and of most imperative
sentences.
Ex. The people need to unite in the most trying times of the country.
2. Place a period after every part of an abbreviation.
Ex. L.D. Teᾗoso - Liza Duat Teᾗoso
U.S.A- United States of America
A.D. - Anno Domini
Washington, D. C. –Washington, District of Columbia

However, it has become the not to use periods in abbreviations of certain government agencies
and of international organizations.

DECS- Department of Education, Culture and Sports

FBI- Federal Bureau of Investigation

PNP- Philippine National Police

3. Place an exclamation point after an exclamatory sentence and after an exclamation set off
from a sentence.
Great! We should keep moving.
Hold that line!
Wow! That’s good!
What an interesting story to tell!
4. Place a question mark after an interrogative sentence.
Is he worth loving?
Do you call that love?
What is the solution of this problem?
Where is everybody going?
5. Place commas to separate items in a series.
Ex, The delegates nominated one candidate, noted, and installed him in office.
There were spots at the top, at the sides, and on the bottom.

6. A period or a comma following a quotation should be placed inside the closing quotation
marks.
Ex. “I’ll attend a seminar tomorrow,” the teacher said.
Rey told his friends, “I would prefer to work in a shop than in a field.”
7. Use an apostrophe and s to form the plural of letters, numbers, and signs and of words
referred to as words.

There are 3 o’s in his family name.

Her telephone number contains two 1’s five 4’s and five 6’s.

Here are 3 of’s in the sentence that she had constructed.