Introductory Elements
Nonrestrictive Elements
Transitions, Parenthetical Expressions, Etc.
Compound Sentences
Conventional Uses
100
Of course we are playing a game.
What is after "course"?
100
Clint Eastwood who is a Republican is an excellent movie director.
What is after "Eastwood" and after "Republican"?
100
For instance Hawaii could be self-sustaining.
What is after "instance"?
100
The Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007 with 32 killed seems like the worst school massacre but in 1927 the Bath School Disaster in Michigan claimed 45 lives.
What is between "massacre" and "but"?
100
Yes this game is easy.
What is after "Yes"?
200
Behind the haunted house there is a grave.
What is after "house"?
200
Lucy Liu who is famous for playing Ling Woo on "Ally McBeal" returns to television this fall.
What is after "Liu" and after "McBeal"?
200
The pipe by the way is broken and the bathroom is flooded.
What is after "pipe" and after "way"?
200
They all text and drive, for they believe they do it safely.
What is between "drive" and "for"?
200
I would like to attend the next summer Olympics in August 2016.
What is a trick question? This sentence requires no comma.
300
Before the sun rises she begins working.
What is after "rises"?
300
Thurgood Marshall who was married to a woman from Hawaii was the first African American justice on the US Supreme Court.
What is after "Marshall" and after "Hawaii"?
300
In other words her boyfriend has a boyfriend.
What is after "words"?
300
Members of The Eagles said they'd be a band again when hell froze over so their comeback album is entitled "Hell Freezes Over."
What is between "over" and "so"?
300
President Barack Obama was born on August 4 1961 at Kapiolani Hospital.
What is after "4" and after "1"?
400
When Mitt Romney finished his speech the audience cheered.
What is after "speech"?
400
My current doctor who should've been a stand-up comic is even funnier than his father who was my first doctor.
What is between "doctor" and "who," between "comic" and "is," and between "father" and "who"?
400
They could have used a condom; moreover they could have practiced abstinence.
What is after "moreover"?
400
The screaming child did not want to listen to his father nor did he want to leave the store.
What is between "father" and "nor"?
400
Ladies and gentlemen may I have your attention please?
What is after "gentlemen"?
500
Having been raised in a conservative church and watching FOX News the bewildered boy thought his professors were crazy.
What is after "News"?
500
The young man who streaked across the field and escaped in a get-away car was arrested later.
What is a trick question? The elements are restrictive and need no comma.
500
At any rate Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly are mock debating.
What is after "rate"?
500
The US Navy SEALS use Belgian Malinois dogs and so does the Secret Service.
What is after "dogs" and "and"?
500
The largest lottery ever won totaled $939000000.
What is between "9" and the first "0" and between the third and fourth "0"?
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