Step 3: For each of the word groups below, select the choice that correctly uses the period, question mark, or exclamation point that comes right after the italicized word. If the original word group is correct as it is, select "no change."

		1. The earliest colonists in America brought along with them large supplies of soap?
		2. Mr John Winthrop, who became the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, wrote to his wife in 1630 and included soap in a list of things he wanted her to bring when she came to the colony.
		3. A ship that the Massachusetts Bay Company chartered included in its cargo two firkins of soap for its colonies near Salem and Boston,
		4. Now you're probably asking yourself what a firkin is.
		5. Is it all that important for you to understand the meaning of firkin.
		6. A firkin was a small wooden barrel that held about nine gallons!
		7. In those days, people didn't wash very often, and they usually didn't wash their whole bodies. Do you think they might have been accustomed to odors that we would find offensive!
		8. I don't know about you, but when I don't bathe, what I hear from my roommates is, "Take a shower, and do it now?"
		9. The colonists eventually made their own soap by boiling wood ashes and animal fat together!
		10. I wonder if I'd get sick to my stomach by trying that
		Step 4: Now that you have practiced recognizing the correct use of periods, question marks, and exclamation points, think about a situation involving cleanliness. It could be about a real or fictional person, or an animal who was always extremely clean (or extremely dirty), your favorite type of bath or shower, a kind of soap you like, a very smelly dog, or your hatred for bathing in general. Then write a paragraph in the box below about that situation. In your paragraph, use at least one period, one question mark, and one exclamation point. After you finish, check to make sure you have used your periods, question marks, and exclamation points correctly. If not, revise your sentences to use them correctly.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.
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