Writing Handbook Exercises
 

Place a colon where it belongs in each of the following sentences.

example: The armed forces focused on the following key requirements: readiness, sustainability, reorganization, modern high-tech equipment, and international cooperation.


7. Canada's most eminent peacekeeper, General E.L.M. Burns, writing in 1985, understood the effect of Cold War rivalries on the conflict in the Middle East "the parallel situations of 1956 and 1973 illustrate the special dangers of hostilities in the Middle East developing into a confrontation between the superpowers."