When George and Simon specified a pause of one unit for a comma, of two units for a semicolon, and of three for a colon, they were no doubt trying to bring some sort of order into a basically confused and _______ situations.
unsatisfactory
The punctuation of Elizabethan drama was useful, but it _____an important element that had been the making of 12th-century punctuation.
lacked
It was Ben Jonson, in his English Grammar, a work ______ about 1617 and published in 1640, who first introduced the use of punctuation in England.
composed
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