In the following paragraph insert colons where they are

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In the following paragraph insert colons where they are needed and eliminate any improperly used colons Rule numbers in the margin refer to appropriate rules in section 35 The first re vision has been done for you and answers to this exercise appear in the back of the book In 1951 Althea Gibson broke the color barrier in women s tennis and be came admired all over the world No one who knew her as a teenager would have predicted her success By the time Althea Gibson reached her teens her record showed three indications of trouble running away from home dropping out of school and losing the one job she had been able to find To survive in her neigh borhood Althea depended on a small welfare allowance occasional handouts and plain old luck She listed her skills as the following good bowler great two on two basketball player and fast paddleball player Even after she began playing tennis and moving in upper class Harlem society she resented the efforts of the society ladies to improve her They busied themselves with tasks such as correcting her manners and restricting her behavior Looking back she later summed up her atti tude she said she wasn t ready to study about how to be a fine lady At eighteen she finally got a waitress job a congenial roommate and a good friend 35a 35d 35a 35c 35 3