Label each sentence C if commas are used correctly with the underlined words and phrases or X if they are not.
1. _____ Sheila, wanting to look her best on her date put on her makeup for, over an hour.
2. _____ My nephew, holding his ice cream cone fell off his bike and skinned his knee.
3. _____ Cedar City’s only bookstore, Celebrity Books, sells books on tape.
4. _____ The woman, who is standing in front of those doors, is my sister.
5. _____ Rhonda, an actress played, Juliet in our school play.
1. X;
2. X;
3. C;
4. X;
5. X
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Which detail does NOT describe the family storm cellar?
a. It was large. b. It was made from cinder blocks. c. It had an upright door opening on a sharp descent of concrete steps. d. It smelled of damp and earth.
All of the following statements about hyphens, dashes, semicolons, and colons are true except a. Writers should use dashes sparingly in academic writing
b. A semicolon can be called a soft period. c. A semicolon follows a salutation in a formal greeting. d. Hyphens are used to create compound adjectives that appear before the noun.
Klein, kleiner, am kleinsten. Bilden Sie zu jeder Wortgruppe je einen Satz mit einem Adjektiv oder Adverb im Komparativ und im Superlativ, wie in dem Beispiel.
Beispiel: gut spielen Ian spielt Tennis viel besser als ich. Christiane spielt Karten am besten. schicke Kleidung tragen ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________
To participate constructively in class discussions, you should avoid
a. trying to say something early in the discussion. b. making your comments brief and to the point. c. getting involved in direct exchanges with other class members. d. giving others a chance to express their ideas.