Comma Exercise 5 - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University
Comma Exercise 5 - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University
Comma Exercise 5 - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University
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1. We went to Bar Harbor but did not take the ferry to Nova
Scotia.
2. The ginkgo tree whose leaves turn bright yellow in the fall
came to this country from Asia.
Exercise : Comma Exercise 1 5. When the intermission was over the members of the
audience moved back to their seats.
Answer : Comma Exercise 1
6. Andy took the elevator to the third floor rushed into the
Exercise : Comma Exercise 2 o!ice and asked to see his father.
Answer : Comma Exercise 2 7. When he stumbled over your feet William was clumsy not
rude.
Exercise : Comma Exercise 3
8. She listened to her favorite record with close careful
Answer : Comma Exercise 3 attention.
Exercise : Comma Exercise 4 9. Jillian who had worked in the dress shop all summer hoped
to work there again during the Christmas holidays.
Answer : Comma Exercise 4
10. Go to the first tra!ic light turn left and then look for a yellow
Exercise : Comma Exercise 5
brick building on the north side of the street.
Answer : Comma Exercise 5 11. After eating the dog's dinner Frisbee ate his own.
Exercise : Commas after Introductions Exercise 1 12. "Oh no," Max exclaimed "I think that Dr. Holmes was
referring to Eliot the novelist not Eliot the poet."
Answer : Commas after Introductions Exercise 1
13. Below the fields stretched out in a hundred shades of
Exercise : Commas after Introductions Exercise 2
green.
Answer : Commas after Introductions Exercise 2
14. To understand the purpose of the course the student needs
to read the syllabus.
Exercise : Commas after Introductions Exercise 3
15. All students are eligible to receive tickets but must go to the
Answer : Commas after Introductions Exercise 3
athletic o!ice to pick them up.
Exercise : Commas vs. Semicolons - Compound
16. Thomas Paine's pamphlet appeared in Philadelphia
Sentences
Pennsylvania on January 9 1776.
Answer : Commas vs. Semicolons - Compound Sentences
17. You don't want any more hamburgers do you?
Exercise : Commas with Nonessential Elements Exercise 1
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