引语的第一部分若是一个完整句子，引语第二部分句首用大写字母，引述动词后用句号。例如：
“Just tell the boys to get busy, ” their father instructed. “They’re college men. They’ll do what they have to do.’’
“No! No!” I cried. “You can’t sell my books.”
如果引语的第一部分不是完整句子，则引语的第二部分以小写字母开始，引述动词后用逗号。例如：
“You sir, ” King Gustav of Sweden told Thorpe, “are the greatest athlete in the world.’’
3) 引述动词位于句末
引语+逗号/问号/惊叹号+引述动词。例如：
一“What offence?” I asked.
一“Theft, ” the policeman said.
“What a beautiful view!” she exclaimed.
4) 引语句子在句末
引语句子位于句末，其标点即为全句标点。例如：
All he can say in English is “How do you do?”
Did you see the words “Are you happy?”
上面两句不能写成：
* All he can say in English is “How do you do?”.
* Did you see the words “Are you happy?”?
EXERCISE 4
Correct the punctuation mistakes in the following sentences. If a sentence is correct as it stands, write C at its end:
1.“On Friday” the teacher announced: “we’ll take up a new lesson.’’
2.“What?” he asked? “do we have to prepare for the camping trip”?
3.“How was your day?” I enquired. “Great!” I enthused.
4.He greets everyone with “Hi”.
5.“You may think I have a lot of garbage in these bags.” One shopping-bag lady volunteered in a church soup kitchen. “but it’s everything I need.”
6.Who wrote “You fools!” on the blackboard?
7.“It pains me,” I said. “To find that you both have been panhandling so long that it no longer embarrasses you.’’
8.Retirement often brings many problems surrounding the “What do I do with myself” question? even though there may be no financial worries.
EXERCISE 5
Capitalize and punctuate the following passages:
1.London Fire
at one o’clock on september 2 1666 the great fire of London started in side a bakers shop in pudding lane it lasted five days and nearly 80%of all the buildings within the London wall were razed according to the official report l3200 houses 87 parish churches over 400 streets and the enormous old st pauls cathedral one of the wonders of the medieval world were in ruins out of Londons 450 acres only 75 remained untouched.
robert hubert a French watchmaker from rouen was accused of the fire the sentence said he had deliberately started the fire after he was hanged it was conclusively proved that he had not even arrived in London until two days after the fire broke out
2.Mountain-Climbing and Sight-Seeing
mr jones was very fond of climbing mountains so one year he went to switzerland for his holidays after he had climbed some easy mountains he decided one day to climb a more difficult one but he did not want to go up it alone so he found a good swiss guide who had often climbed that mountain
at first it was not a difficult climb but then they came to a place which was not so easy the guide stopped turned round and warned mr jones be careful here he said this is a dangerous place you can easily fall and if you do you will fall straight down a very long way but he continued calmly if you do fall here don’t forget to look to the right while you are going down there is a quite extraordinarily beautiful view there much more beautiful than the one you can see from here
3.The Road to Happiness
it is the simple things that really matter if a man delights in his wife and children has success in work and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night spring and autumn he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be if on the other hand he finds his wife hateful his childrens noise
unendurable and the office a nightmare if in the daytime he longs for night and at night he sighs for the light of day then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new pattern of life a different diet or more exercise man is an animal and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think unhappy business men I am convinced would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy
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