Unit
Test 4: Section B
Eliminating Unnecessary Commas
Read the following section in your Bedford Handbook
before you start the exercises:
Section 33. 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 Misuses of the Comma.
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Practice
Problems:
1)
We learned from our teacher in history class, that the typical version of Paul
Revere's ride is a lie.
2)
No one knew that Howard liked to collect rare butterflies from the Amazon, and
immense Iguanas from the jungles of
3)
Alison, had heard, that she wouldn't not, be getting the scholarship, so she
hanged one of her boyfriends, Fred.
4)
I am not one to tell the truth about my rather dark deeds, and various vices,
unless someone pries them out of me with a crowbar.
5)
The student with the dark hair who used to sit in the corner,
is absent.