1. Make an assertion of your own, add a colon, andfollow it with a quotation in a complete sentence.

   2. Create an introductory or closing phraseor clause, and attach a quotation to it with a comma.

   3. Work some briefexcerpts of quoted material into an assertion of yourown.

Instructions: Bearing these three principles in mind, read theten examples of quotations listed below, all of which are full ofvarious mistakes. Identify the mistakesin each sentence and correct them. Youneed not reword or change the entire sentence; just fix themistakes. Please also pay close attention to the punctuation ofthese quotations before and after they appear in the sentences.

1. J.K. Rowling’s initial description of her hero Harry Potteris anything but heroic; in the first book of the series, HarryPotter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Rowling describes Harry’sodd appearance in great detail to emphasize his uniqueness. “Harryhad a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes.He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tapebecause of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. Theonly thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thinscar on his forehead that was shaped like a lightning bolt.”(Rowling 20)

2. Annie Dillard writes that she got the idea for her essay“Living like Weasels” when she was out walking, and sheinadvertently \"startled a weasel that startled me, and we exchangeda long glance.\" (58)

3. When Elizabeth reveals that her younger sister Lydia hasunexpectedly eloped with Wickham, Mr. Darcy drops his customaryreserve, “'I am grieved, indeed,' cried Darcy, 'grieved — shocked'”(Austen 295).

4. At first, Juliet has doubts about their elopement. She tellsRomeo that “Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contracttonight./ It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden” (2.2.117-8).Juliet’s hesitation illustrates her impressive foresight, since sheis able to see the possible consequences of their hastyactions.

5. Throughout the story, Atwood contrasts “Canadian” with“American” through the characters of Lois and Lucy. For example,“Lucy was from the United States where comic books came from, andthe movies.” (Atwood 272)

6.   Jane reveals the depths of both her loyalty andher misery by secretly pining for Rochester, as is evident when shedeclares that she “could not unlove him now, merely because I foundthat he had ceased to notice me” (Brontë 252).

7. At first Mrs. Ramsey finds Mr. Tansley annoying, especiallywhen he mentions that no one is going to the lighthouse (52).However, rather than hating him, at this point she feels pity. \"Shepitied men always as if they lacked something\" (85).

                             

8. Throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Scout admiresher father for his quiet strength “It was times like these when Ithought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars,was the bravest man who ever lived.” (Lee 64)

                             

9.      “I wandered lonely as a cloud,/That floats on high o'er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw acrowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils” ( ll. 1-4) is the innocuousbeginning to Wordsworth’s brief meditation on the potency ofremembered joy and its life-giving qualities.

10.   As the poem draws to an end, Dickinson refers tothe power of the imagination, “The revery alone will do,/ If beesare few” (l. 4).