USING SEMICOLONS AND COLONS CORRECTLY Correct the punctuation in the following sentences by re-writing the
sentence, adding semicolons and colons where they are needed and by changing other punctuation and capitalization as
needed
Example 1. The following items were among those rationed in the United States during World
War Il coffee, cars, sugar, and tires.
Corrected version: The following items were among those rationed in the United
States during World War Il: coffee, cars, sugar, and tires
When Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the governor of Georgia in January of 1971, he spoke these ringing words "No
poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an
education, a job, or simple justice."

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.