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16. Mr. Yee and Dr. Gillespie are signing copies of their new books.
17. The Democratic Party is having a fund-raiser in the hotel ballroom.
18. The Cartesian idea that this life is only a dream is rather appealing.
19. Have you seen the Grecian urns at the Different Plane Gallery?
20. James says, “if we search long enough, we are certain to find what we are looking for.”
21. Orange blossoms decorated the parade float.
22. Owls could be heard hooting in the April night.
23. The president’s press conference will begin at two o’clock.
24. doris wonders If she made enough food for the reception.
25. René Descartes was a French philosopher who lived in the seventeenth century.
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Unit 12: Punctuation, Abbreviations,
and Numbers
Lesson 75
End Punctuation: Period, Exclamation Point, 
and Question Mark
Use a period at the end of a declarative sentence and at the end of a polite command.
Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Think of another author from Africa who won the Nobel Prize.
Use an exclamation point to show strong feeling and indicate a forceful command.
What a fabulous book!
Read it!
Use a question mark to indicate a direct question.
Did Wole Soyinka of Nigeria win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A declarative sentence containing an indirect question does not take a question mark.
Juanita asked if Naguib Mahfouz from Egypt had also won the prize.
 Exercise 1