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ߜ Their/there/they’re: The first shows possession (the birds grasped seeds in
their beaks). The second is a location (don’t go there). The third is a contraction
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... meaning it is.
ߜ Their/there/they’re: The first shows possession (the birds grasped seeds in
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meaning they are.
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they’re.
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Seeking Out the Subject/Verb Pair
The subject/verb pair is the heart ... happens whenever the cow jumps over the
moon?” The thought is not complete.
21 . The cow, who used to work for NASA until she got fed up with the bureaucracy.
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They (S)/lapped (V). The action here is lapped, which unites nicely with they. Completeness
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incomplete. The reader is waiting to hear something about the cow. The way the sentence
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math.
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you to insert a comma before the and or whatever word joins the last two items of the list.
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another begins. Commas do the same thing in sentences. Perhaps Professor MacGregor
wants you to do the following:
ߜ Go on the Internet.
ߜ Locate the origin of th...
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... his cellphone.
22 . Cindy on the other hand checked the phone number in the pizza directory she had
thoughtfully stashed in her purse.
23 . Yes pizza was an excellent idea.
24 . The toppings unfortunately ... commas where you need them in these sentences.
Q. On December 12 2007 I received a letter from Evelyn O’Hara, who now resides at 722 Park
Avenue New York City New York 10 027...
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about the sport? Here you see the benefit of the direct-address comma. Without it, the reader
thinks I know Mort is the beginning of the sentence and then lapses into confusion. ... comma.
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Cindy, on the other hand, checked the phone number in the pizza directory she had
thoughtfully stashed in her purse. The expression inside the commas makes a co...
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other words, thereby changing the meaning. Most prefixes attach without hyphens, but a
couple (self-, for example) tend to appear with hyphens.
As with other punctuation marks, the ... make sense without the commas. Cindy isn’t attached to the interrupter, let’s just say, but
absent the commas, the reader runs all those words together. Penalty box! You have to add...