Correct the following sentences with respect to the colon, dash, parentheses, or brackets. 1.) Dearest Rodney
2.) My five years’ experience as a high school English teacher qualifies me to be the editor of your newspaper.
3.) The carpenter’s tools included: saw, hammer, square, measuring tape, and nails.
4.) College students generally complain about things such as: their professors, the cafeteria food, and their roommates.
5.) The dean demanded that: the coaches, the players, and the training staff meet with him immediately.
6.) Tonight’s winning numbers are: 169, 534, and 086.
7.) Julius was born in 1900 ? and came west as a young boy.
8.) The concert begins at by the way, when does the concert begin?
9.) Her essay was entitled “The American Medical System and It’s sic Problems.
10.) Senator Aikin Dem., Maine voted for the proposal.
11.) The essay begins: “For more than a hundred years from 1337 until 1453 the British and French fought a pointless war.” [Punctuate to show that the boldface expression is inserted editorially.]

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it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.