Cover of the textbook New Total English Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Writing bank 7 for the textbook New Total English Elementary - Students' Book with authors Mark Foley and Diane Hall from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the How to ... box and complete the exercise.
  2. Choose the correct underlined punctuation marks.
  3. Decide where to put the dash in the sentences.

Answer

a)

  1. exclamation mark
  2. dash

b)

  1. - (dash); ! (exclamation mark)
  2. - (dash)
  3. ! (exclamation mark)
  4. ! (exclamation mark)

c)

  1. Thanks for the present - it's just what I wanted.
  2. I’m really pleased you got the job - good luck!
  3. Enjoy your trip - send me a postcard!
  4. I’m sorry I missed your birthday - I was on holiday.