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Allan Wolf12  \nForgotten:A Colon's Complaint Alice Schertle  \n14  \n!!!!!!!-Superhero Kaboom-!!!!!!!Julie Larios  \n16  \nStubby the Hyphen J.Patrick Lewis  \n18  \nThe Purpose of Parentheses Michele Krueger20  \nPeriod Jane Yolen22  \nQuestion Marks Prince Redcloud24  \nYou Can Quote Us on That Joan Bransfield Graham 26  \nSemicolon Betsy Franco28  \nLines Written for You to Think About  \n30  \n(Inspired by Carl Sandburg)Lee Bennett Hopkins  \nA PUNCTUATION TALE  \nWake up!  \nAn exclamation starts your day,  \nsteers the way to a comma,  \nwhich brings you to pause  \nin an inlet cove  \nfor a snack of shrimp,,,  \nthen a mad dash sends you  \nswift and straight-like the whoosh of a sail-into pockets of small waves;here semicolon whispers  \nwhile sea's apostrophe tells a taleof joining twenty-two ships or morewith a bridge called hyphen andholding steadfast while waitingthrough calm ellipses near the shore...  \nA colon is used to search the map:  \nNorth  \nSouth  \nEast  \nWest.  \nWhich direction are we headed?(Here come the parentheses-it's the navigation test.)Finally,you stopon a sleepy spot.You come to a smallperiod-a dot.  \nseg  \nS  \n装  \nSoon once againyou sail away  \nto the Island of End of Day,where sky is a scribbleof lights and darks-  \nwith  \n“good night”  \ncuddledin quotation marks.  \nLee Bennett HopkinsA commalets you stop,pause,enjoy the weather,unlike a period,which puts an endto anycloudy,rainy,snowy,or sunny day,at once,immediately,forever.那到6","cbCaiq70P7Kuspx7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq70P7Kuspx7","pdf",2570629,"English","# Table of Contents\n## A Punctuation Tale\n## Comma\n## Apostrophe\n## The Dash\n## ...","[{\"question\":\"How does the book present punctuation marks?\",\"answer\":\"It treats punctuation as friendly, character-like tools that actively shape how words sound and flow. 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