Question

2. Punctuate the following passages appropriately.
1. the hour and the place were both favourable to contemplation mr pickwick was
roused by the church clock striking twelve the first stroke of the hour sounded
solemnly in his ear but when the bell ceased the stillness seemed insupportable he
almost felt as if he had lost a companion
The hour and the place were both favourable to contemplation: Mr Pickwick
was roused by the church clock striking twelve. The first stroke of the hour
sounded solemnly in his ear, but when the bell ceased, the stillness seemed
insupportable-he almost felt as if he had lost a companion.
2. a boy was hunting for locusts he had caught a good number when he saw a
scorpion and mistaking him for a locust reached out his hand to take him the
would
scorpion showing his sting said if you had but touched me my
have lost me and all your locusts too?
friend you
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, Chapter 11
Aesop's Fables​

Answer 1

Explanation:

He had taken a few turns from the door to the window, and from the window to the door, when the clergyman's manuscript for the first time entered his head. It was a good thought. if it failed to interest him, it might send him to sleep. He took it from his coat pocket, and drawing a small table towards his bedside, trimmed the light, put on his spectacles, and composed himself to read. It was a strange handwriting, and the paper was much soiled and blotted. The title gave him a sudden start, too; and he could not avoid casting a wistful glance round the room. Reflecting on the absurdity of giving way to such feelings, however, he trimmed the light again, and read as follows:--

He had taken a few turns from the door to the window, and from the window to the door, when the clergyman's manuscript for the first time entered his head. It was a good thought. if it failed to interest him, it might send him to sleep. He took it from his coat pocket, and drawing a small table towards his bedside, trimmed the light, put on his spectacles, and composed himself to read. It was a strange handwriting, and the paper was much soiled and blotted. The title gave him a sudden start, too; and he could not avoid casting a wistful glance round the room. Reflecting on the absurdity of giving way to such feelings, however, he trimmed the light again, and read as follows:--A MADMAN'S MANUSCRIPT

He had taken a few turns from the door to the window, and from the window to the door, when the clergyman's manuscript for the first time entered his head. It was a good thought. if it failed to interest him, it might send him to sleep. He took it from his coat pocket, and drawing a small table towards his bedside, trimmed the light, put on his spectacles, and composed himself to read. It was a strange handwriting, and the paper was much soiled and blotted. The title gave him a sudden start, too; and he could not avoid casting a wistful glance round the room. Reflecting on the absurdity of giving way to such feelings, however, he trimmed the light again, and read as follows:--A MADMAN'S MANUSCRIPT'Yes!--a madman's! How that word would have struck to my heart, many years ago! How it would have roused the terror that used to come upon me sometimes, sending the blood hissing and tingling through my veins, till the cold dew of fear stood in large drops upon my skin, and my knees knocked together with fright! I like it now though. It's a fine name. Show me the monarch whose angry frown was ever feared like the glare of a madman's eye--whose cord and axe were ever half so sure as a madman's gripe. Ho! ho! It's a grand thing to be mad! to be peeped at like a wild lion through the iron bars--to gnash one's teeth and howl, through the long still night, to the merry ring of a heavy chain and to roll and twine among the straw, transported with such brave music.

Answer 2

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