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Your friend,
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They (S)/lapped (V). The action here is lapped, which unites nicely with they. Completeness
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they’re. The sentence tells you that they are always late, and the short form of they are is
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fender; the cycle does. Thus you need the possessive pronoun its.
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theirs. One of the choices — their’s — doesn’t exist in proper English. Th...
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... New York 10027, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper East
Side. Commas separate the day from the year, the whole date from the rest of the sen-
tence, and each part of the address (the house number ... line
of the address ends and the next begins and between the city and state, which is
standard practice. If the sentence continues after the address, insert a comma
after...
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... you tell our audience
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...
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... Your Cutie Patootie,
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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 contr...
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... meaning it is.
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
meaning they are.
ߜ ... to keep
quiet.
A. their. The sentence expresses possession, so you want the first choice. The second there
is location, and the third means they are. If you plug they are into th...
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The subject/verb pair is the heart ... pairs form a closed circle: The thought they express is complete.
That’s the quality you want, because otherwise your reader echoes the outlaw who,
with his head in...
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Part ... list ends and
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 o...