Review Exercise for Section 30 Use other punctuation marks correctly.
Correct any errors in the use of dashes, parentheses, brackets, slashes, and ellipsis dots. (Citations should conform to MLA style.)
1.nGeorge Harrison—the most reclusive member of the Beatles, and the one who urged most strongly that the band stop playing live shows, died on November 29, 2001.
2.nBeatles fans from all over the world mourned the death of the second member of the most famous rock band in history [John Lennon had been murdered more than twenty years before Harrison died of cancer].
3.nHarrison (known to fans everywhere simply as “George,” whose songwriting took a back seat to that of Lennon and McCartney, still wrote some of the Beatles’ biggest hits, including “Something,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” and “Here Comes the Sun.”
4.nObituaries noted Harrison’s interest in Eastern music and religion (at the time of his death, he remained a follower of a form of Hinduism he called Krishna Consciousness
5.nIn many of the films in which Harrison either had a starring role or made a cameo appearance, A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, a Beatles parody called All You Need Is Cash starring members of Monty Python (and produced by Harrison), Monty Python’s Life of Brian, his sly sense of humor was apparent.
6.nIn The Beatles Anthology, Harrison noted, “As a band, we were tight . . . We could argue a lot among ourselves, but we were very, very close”. . . . [83]
7.nFor most music lovers, Harrison will be forever associated with a band that broke up in 1970, but his 1987 album, Cloud Nine, “[won] over a new generation of fans (. . .) born after the Beatles’ demise.” (Rees and Crampton 256)
8.nExpressing sorrow at Harrison’s death, Paul McCartney said, “He (was) really just my baby brother” (Kozinn A1).