Punctuate the following with the help of MLA handbook. No explanations are given in this worksheet. A. 1.

Teachers teach and students snore. 2. The teachers problems and the students problems and Holmes problems are different from Jones problem. 3. Jack and Jill went up the hill. 4. One two buckle my shoes 5. The researcher should work hard and the guide should assist them. 6. Macbeth has been translated adapted remade and recreated in different languages and cultures. 7. We have very little idea of the steps by which men came to speak and indeed no accurate assessment of the time at which speech began. 8. The parliament discussed the bill and passed it. 9. The parliament passed the bill and sent it for approval to the president. 10. The evidence for these goes back only as far as we have written records a mere few thousand years a tiny fraction of the total time that man has been speaking. 11. It was a grim melancholic reminder of the times. 12. The book offers clear accessible step by step introduction. 13. He wore a dark blue shirt. 14. Hans took out his pocket handkerchief put the piece of silver into it threw it over his shoulder and jogged off homewards. As he went lazily on dragging one foot after another a man came in sight trotting along gaily on a capital horse. 15. The researcher who wants to produce a good work must try to think out of the box. 16. The researcher who is expected to be objective must try to provide proof at every point. 17. The novel talks about India where nothing can be pinned down. 18. The novel talks about a place where nothing can be pinned down. 19. Language and related matters which are subjective and confusing need a different kind of analysis. 20. No there were no two ways about it he knew nothing of Anderson or his tales.

21. Some of the tales are sinister some funny others teach us about love compassion or revenge greed cruelty or kindness. 22. There are three characteristics of language that are important for the understanding of the nature of grammar it is complex productive and arbitrary. 23. For instance it has been argued that with sufficient ingenuity one can contextualize Chomskys famous example colourless green ideas sleep furiously. 24. When using colons use the following rule use the colon to introduce a list.