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Unit 11: Use of Capitals and Basic Punctuations

9. Punctuate the following: notes
ENIAC was...the world’s first fully electronic general-purpose (programmable) digital
computer, although this claim, as well as the validity of the patents for ENIAC, was
challenged in 1973 by John V. Atanasoff (b.1903,) a professor at Iowa State College.
10. Punctuate the following:

Turing visited the United States in 1942 and apparently talked with John von Neuman
(1903-1957), a mathematician, but had little impact on the American development of
the computer until after the war,at which time there was extensive American-English
discussion on the subject of computation.

answers: self assessment

1. The, San Juan, Mayor Ortega, Sunday, July
2. My, Tom Wilson, Honda Accord, San Francisco

3. Yesterday, I, Lord, Rings
4. The, General Motors, July, Newsweek
5. David Johnson, Chevy Blazer, Delaware Memorial Bridge, Friday
6. When, I, New York Times, I, Lieutenant Martin Bailey, Colonel Dunlap, North Korean
7. Alan, Professor C. R. Klein, “Chemical Properties, Popular Diet Foods

8. Mary, Shut, It’s 9. (d) 10. (a) 11. (a)
12. (b) 13. (d) 14. (c) 15. (d)
16. (c) 17. (c) 18. (a)

11.6 further readings

Books Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik, A Comprehensive
Grammar of the English Language, Longman Publications.

Raymond Murphy, Essential English Grammar, Cambridge University Press.
Urmila Rai and S.M. Rai, Business Communication, Himalaya Publishing House.

Online links http://www.englishclub.com/writing/caps0.htm
http://www.say-it-in-english.com/BasicEnglish8.html
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-punctuate-a-
sentence.html
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-punctuate-a-
sentence.html

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