Paragraph Exercise 2

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38. Semicolons

Paragraph Exercise 2

Rewrite the following paragraph with the appropriate semicolons, commas, and periods. Be sure you also put in capital letters!

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Gertrude Stein famously said that a rose is a rose is a rose as pleasing as that sounds there's more to the story of roses than that the color of the rose is very important in the War of the Roses for instance the House of Lancaster chose the red rose while the House of York chose the white some people now think that white roses represent death however historically in England the presence of a white rose in a meeting indicated that the participants had to keep the discussion at the meeting to themselves in other words the white rose represented silence which hails from Cupid's giving the rose to Harpocrates the god of silence so he would keep the properties of the rose secret from the gods many people consider the yellow rose to be a token of friendship but historically it represented infidelity roses are prized for more than their looks they have been used in cooking medicines and crafts through the ages.

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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