Question

exercise a add commas as needed to the following sentences. if the sentence is already punctuated correctly, write c on the line provided.
example ____ 1. the ball flew over the fence, bounced on the driveway, and landed on the roof.
____ 1. in early spring, daffodils, irises, tulips, and crocuses bloom.
____ 2. did bob, rafael, or bart start as quarterback after the half?
____ 3. the company put an intriguing, classified ad in sunday’s paper.
____ 4. i like renee because she is such a dependable, sensitive person.
____ 5. vermont has green, rolling valleys and lofty, pine - crested mountains.
____ 6. i have visited mississippi, louisiana, and new mexico.
____ 7. he cooked me chicken fajitas with jalapeño peppers, nopalés, and avocado.
____ 8. prague was a graceful, pastel city.
____ 9. ahmed, sheryl, fred, and suzi went to the library; but harriet, kate, and jim ran.
____ 10. my dog daisy is brown, black, and white.
exercise b the following paragraph contains several errors in the use of commas. proofread the paragraph to correct all the errors, inserting commas where necessary. if a sentence is already correct, write c above it.
example 1 kim just finished reading an interesting, informative book by lillie patterson.
11 lillie patterson has worked as a teacher, librarian, and children’s author. 12 as a child, patterson lived with her grandmother in south carolina. 13 her grandmother was an interesting, well - read person, who instilled in patterson her early love for books. 14 patterson has written biographies, poems, and nonfiction articles for children. 15 the subjects of her biographies have included frederick douglass, booker t. washington, and dr. martin luther king, jr.

Answer:

To solve these comma - related exercises, we follow the rules of comma usage in English, such as using commas to separate items in a series, to separate adjectives that equally modify a noun, and to set off introductory elements.

Exercise A

1. Sentence 1: "In early spring, daffodils, irises, tulips, and crocuses bloom."

• The sentence already has commas correctly separating the items in the series (daffodils, irises, tulips, crocuses). So we write "C".

1. Sentence 2: "Did Bob, Rafael, or Bart start as quarterback after the half?"

• Commas are correctly used to separate the items in the series (Bob, Rafael, Bart) in a question. So we write "C".

1. Sentence 3: "The company put an intriguing, classified ad in Sunday’s paper."

• Commas are correctly used to separate the two adjectives (intriguing, classified) that modify "ad". So we write "C".

1. Sentence 4: "I like Renee because she is such a dependable, sensitive person."

• Commas are correctly used to separate the two adjectives (dependable, sensitive) that modify "person". So we write "C".

1. Sentence 5: "Vermont has green, rolling valleys and lofty, pine - crested mountains."

• We need to add a comma between "lofty" and "pine - crested" to separate the adjectives modifying "mountains". The original sentence is incorrect. After correction, we write the corrected sentence: "Vermont has green, rolling valleys and lofty, pine - crested mountains."

1. Sentence 6: "I have visited Mississippi, Louisiana, and New Mexico."

• The sentence already has commas correctly separating the items in the series (Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico). So we write "C".

1. Sentence 7: "He cooked me chicken fajitas with jalapeño peppers, nopalitos, and avocado."

• The sentence already has commas correctly separating the items in the series (jalapeño peppers, nopalitos, avocado). So we write "C".

1. Sentence 8: "Prague was a graceful, pastel city."

• We need to add a comma between "graceful" and "pastel" to separate the adjectives modifying "city". The original sentence is incorrect. After correction, we write: "Prague was a graceful, pastel city."

1. Sentence 9: "Ahmed, Sheryl, Fred, and Suzi went to the library; but Harriet, Kate, and Jim ran."

• Commas are correctly used to separate the items in the series (Ahmed, Sheryl, Fred, Suzi and Harriet, Kate, Jim). The semicolon is also used correctly to separate the two independent clauses. So we write "C".

1. Sentence 10: "My dog Daisy is brown, black, and white."

• The sentence already has commas correctly separating the items in the series (brown, black, white). So we write "C".

Exercise B

1. Sentence [11]: "Lillie Patterson has worked as a teacher, librarian, and children’s author."

• The sentence already has commas correctly separating the items in the series (teacher, librarian, children’s author). So we write "C" above it.

1. Sentence [12]: "As a child, Patterson lived with her grandmother in South Carolina."

• The comma after "As a child" is correctly used to set off the introductory phrase. So we write "C" above it.

1. Sentence [13]: "Her grandmother was an interesting, well - read person, who instilled in Patterson her early love for books."

• Commas are correctly used: one to separate the adjectives (interesting, well - read) modifying "person" and one to set off the non - restrictive clause "who instilled in Patterson her early love for books". So we write "C" above it.

1. Sentence [14]: "Patterson has written biographies, poems, and nonfiction articles for children."

• The sentence already has commas correctly separating the items in the series (biographies, poems, nonfiction articles). So we write "C" above it.

1. Sentence [15]: "The subjects of her biographies have included Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

• The sentence already has commas correctly separating the items in the series (Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.). So we write "C" above it.

Final Answers (Exercise A)

1. C
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. Vermont has green, rolling valleys and lofty, pine - crested mountains.
6. C
7. C
8. Prague was a graceful, pastel city.
9. C
10. C

Final Answers (Exercise B)

[11] C
[12] C
[13] C
[14] C
[15] C