English Skills with Readings 8th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 5

Each item that follows lacks basic punctuation. There is no period to mark the end of one sentence and no capital letter to mark the start of the next. Read each item aloud (or in your head) so that you "hear" where each sentence begins and ends. Your voice will tend to drop and pause at the point of each sentence break. Draw a light slash mark (/) at every point where you hear a break. Then go back and read the item a second time. If you are now sure of each place where a split occurs, insert a period and change the first small letter after it to a capital. Minor pauses are often marked in English by commas; these are already inserted. Part of item 1 is done for you as an example.
the Federalists, a faction that arose during the administration of President George Washington (1789-97), favored a strong central government it was led by Alexander Hamilton, Washington's secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton and his followers also believed in supporting the rights of landowners and business people they were opposed by the Democratic-Republican Party the Federalists were against the war of 1812 with Great Britain however, President James Madison, a member of the opposing party, was reelected therefore, the war continued by 1824, the Federalists had lost much of their power, and soon the party went out of existence.