Unit
Test 4: Section A
Necessary
Commas
Read the following section in your Bedford
Handbook before you start the exercises:
Section 32. Yes, all of it!
Also, make sure to try out some of the practice problems online with the Hacker website (Dave’s email
is david-holper@redwood.edu for the login). Then go to Punctuation and do
the exercises under Major Uses of the Comma.
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Practice
Problems:
1)
The flag was still standing after the battle gently flapping in the breeze and
lifting the spirits of every man who had survived.
2)
I personally don't care for too much sex on TV so I tend to have mine in bed.
3)
Whistling happily all the way to the bank
4)
On a raft that drifted at sea for nearly six months the family had to struggle
to survice.
5)
We had heard his worst song "Muskrat Love" but we tried not to talk
about it in his presence.
6)
The secretary catatonic from her boss's insults left the office and never
returned.
7)
Before we get started on your root canal do you have any last wishes?
8)
On an iceberg which exists mostly below the surface there is a limited amount
of room to wrestle with polar bears.
9)
The nimble delicate ballerina ate the eclair in one
enormous bite.
10)
I hate narrow-minded judgmental people who don't see things the way I do!
11)
The four student food groups salt, sugar, fat, and
caffeine are readily available in the cafeteria.