Essentials of Business Communication 8th Edition by Mary Ellen Guffey

Exercise 35

Semicolons and Colons
Review Sections 2.16-2.19 in the Grammar/Mechanics Handbook. Then study each of the following statements. Insert any necessary punctuation. Use the delete sign to omit unnecessary punctuation. In the space provided indicate the number of changes you made and record the number of the G/M principle(s) illustrated. (When you replace one punctuation mark with another, count it as one change.) If you make no changes, write 0. This exercise concentrates on semicolon and colon use, but you will also be responsible for correct comma use. When you finish, compare your responses with those shown at the end of the book. If your responses differ, study carefully the specific principles shown in parentheses.
Example Nino Rota's job is to make sure that his company has enough cash to meet its obligations, moreover he is responsible for finding ways to reduce operating expenses.
1. Informal reports lend to be short and informational formal reports on the other hand are mostly delivered in manuscript format and are usually analytical.
2. Our supplier has experienced labor shortages causing delays however we will do our best to deliver your order as soon as we can.
3. Business slows down to a crawl in Europe because of extensive vacations during the following months June July and August.
4. Large American corporations that offer a variety of financial services are: Bank of America and Citibank.
5. As long as you observe the ethics guidelines in your company's employee handbook you have nothing to fear from your next employee performance appraisal.
6. A supermarket probably requires no short-term credit a seasonal company such as a ski resort however typically would need considerable short-term credit.
7. We offer three basic types 01 short-term lines of credit commercial paper and single-payer credit.
8. Speakers at the conference on credit include the following businesspeople Lynne Krause financial manager American International Investments Patrick Coughlin comptroller NationsBank and Shannon Daly legal counsel Fidelity National Financial.
9. Users must first establish an account on the company's e-commerce site and then they can order from the online catalog.
10. Many methods are used to calculate finance charges for example average daily balance adjusted balance two-cycle average daily balance and previous balance.
11. Hot Topic, which is a small clothing retailer with a solid credit rating recently applied for a loan however Union Bank refused the loan application because the bank was short on cash.
12. When Hot Topic was refused by Union Bank its financial managers submitted applications to: Chemical Bank, Washington Mutual, and wells Fargo.
13. The cost of financing capital investments at the present time is very high therefore Hot Topic's managers elected to postpone certain expansion projects.
14. If interest rates reach as high as 18 percent the cost of borrowing becomes prohibitive and many businesses are forced to reconsider or abandon projects that require financing.
15. Many small stockholders invested in stocks when the markets were riding high then they lost a lot of money after the markets declined.