Subject: English

Topic: Punctuation Practice (passages)

Name: ________________________ Grade: VIII Sec: _____ Date: ______________

Rewrite the following paragraphs with proper punctuation.

1) next morning I bumped into mickey dooley at the water bucket know what kind of fish live

in a water bucket he asked his eyes as usual looking here and there at the same time he didnt

wait for an answer but waved the dipper at me and said wet fish get it

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2) my mother asked us to speak to her in english I did so slowly and carefully I asked her

questions how are you how was your day but because these were questions chinese children

never asked their parents even if she had enough words to answer me she would not have

known how stop asking me crazy pointless questions she said and let me learn something

useful

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