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title: "Edit text: frightened and halfdead"
subject: "Communication English"
chapter: 3
key: "semester_5/communication_english:edit-text-how-you-frightened-me"
source: https://www.bctengineer.com/q/semester_5/communication_english/edit-text-how-you-frightened-me
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---

# Edit text: frightened and halfdead

Communication English · Chapter 3: Contextual Grammar

- Asked in: 2076 Chaitra, 5 marks
- Answer checked by Claude Opus 5.5 (high effort) on 2026-10-14
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## Question

Edit the following text:
How you frightened me she said breathing hard still pale and overwhelmed. Oh how you frightened me. I am halfdead. Why have you come why.

## Short answer

'How you frightened me!' she said, breathing hard, still pale and overwhelmed. 'Oh, how you frightened me! I am half dead. Why have you come? Why?'

## Answer

#### Edited text
"How you frightened me!" she said, breathing hard, still pale and overwhelmed. "Oh, how you frightened me! I am half dead. Why have you come? Why?"

#### Corrections made
- Quotation marks added around each speech.
- Exclamation marks added after "me" in both exclamations.
- Commas added after "said", "hard" and "Oh".
- "halfdead" written as "half dead".
- Question marks added after "Why have you come" and "Why".

## Check yourself

The answer's key points as multiple-choice questions, with the correct option and why.

1. What mark follows 'How you frightened me'?
   A. A full stop
   B. An exclamation mark
   C. A comma
   D. A colon
   Answer: B. It is an exclamation of strong feeling. (Key point: Exclamation)

2. How is 'she said breathing hard still pale' handled?
   A. Left as is
   B. Commas separate 'she said' and the descriptive phrases
   C. Put in quotation marks
   D. Joined with dashes
   Answer: B. Commas set off the reporting phrase and the participle phrases. (Key point: Speech punctuation)

3. 'halfdead' is written as:
   A. half dead
   B. half-dead-ly
   C. halfe dead
   D. half dead-
   Answer: A. The edited text writes it as two words: half dead. (Key point: Compound word)

4. 'Why have you come why.' is corrected to:
   A. Why have you come? Why?
   B. Why have you come, why.
   C. Why have you come! why
   D. Why have you come why?
   Answer: A. Both are questions, so each ends with a question mark and starts with a capital. (Key point: Questions)

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