Grammar and Language Workbook

Add colons as needed. Cross out colons used incorrectly using the delete ( )
symbol. If the sentence is correct as written, write 
C in the blank.
Grandfather’s flight was due to arrive at the airport at: 7
:
23 
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M
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1. The positions on a basketball team are as follows a center, two guards, and two
forwards.
2. Paraguay and Bolivia share at least one important feature they are both without a
coastline.
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3. This morning’s reading comes from II Samuel 7 16-24.
4. The members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland include Chuck Berry,
Buddy Holly, and Sam Cooke.
5. The petition began with this statement “Because of our concern for the future of the
earth, we strongly encourage Dunbar High School to begin a recycling program as soon
as possible.”
6. Dear Returns Department
7. Among the ingredients found on the gourmet pizza were goat cheese, spinach,
pineapple, dandelion leaves, and duck sausage.
8. While coffee is very popular in most countries: in a few, tea is the warm beverage of
choice.
9. Alana has a number of unusual hobbies, such as: playing traditional Hawaiian music,
raising show pigeons, and collecting old bottle caps.
10. My favorite line of poetry, because it sounds so much like bees buzzing, is the following
by Tennyson: “the murmuring of innumerable bees.”