Comma Splices
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Events in Chapter 5
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Comma Splices 2
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Correct the sentence:

Remember how he was wisecracking, last night?


Remember how he was wisecracking last night?

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Where do/es the comma(s) go?

Ponyboy Dally and Johnny hide in the abandoned church for safety.

Ponyboy, Dally, and Johnny hide in the abandoned church for safety. 

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What did Pony and Johnny do to their hair?

Johnny cut his, and Ponyboy cut and bleached his.

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What Grammy Award did Ariana Grande win?

Best Pop Vocal Album

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Correct the sentence:

He had stopped crying, when I started.

He had stopped crying when I started.

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What corrections, if any, need to be made to the sentence below?:

We couldn't watch the sunset since the back faced east, but I loved to look at the colors of the fields, and the soft shadings of the horizon.

We couldn't watch the sunset, since the back faced east, but I loved to look at the colors of the fields and the soft shadings of the horizon.

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What changes need to be made to this sentence?

The Greasers are all very close with eachother.

The Greasers are very close with each other.

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Where did Ponyboy and Johnny run away to?

the abandoned church

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What does it mean to be reluctant?

to be unwilling or hesitant towards something

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Correct the sentence:

I mean, I couldn't tell Two-Bit or Steve or even Darry, about the sunrise and clouds and stuff.

I mean, I couldn't tell Two-Bit or Steve or even Darry about the sunrise and clouds and stuff.

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Is the comma in the right place?

When you haven't got anything to do, you remember things in spite of yourself.

No.

Correct sentence: When you haven't got anything to do, you remember things in spite of yourself.

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Jalex was involved in a motor vehicle car accident today with another car this morning. 


What is Jalex was in a car accident this morning? 

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Where did Ponyboy, Dally, and Johnny go out to eat?

Dairy Queen

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What does "bewilder" mean? What part of speech is it?

to confuse; verb

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Correct the sentence:

By the fifth day I was so tired of baloney, I nearly got sick every time I looked at it.

By the fifth day I was so tired of baloney I nearly got sick every time I looked at it.

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What changes. if any, need to be made to the sentence?:On the fifth day I had read up to Sherman's siege of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind, owed Johnny a hundred and fifty bucks from poker games, smoked two packs of Camels, and as Johnny had predicted, got sick.

No changes need to be made to the sentence.

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Correct the sentence:

Aaron forgot to wear his red and pink today, he also forgot to study for his science test.

Aaron forgot to wear his red and pink today. He also forgot to study for his test.

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Who told Johnny and Pony to go to the abandoned church?

Dally

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What is the largest freshwater lake in the world?

Lake Superior

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Correct the sentence:

The next four or five days were, the longest days I've ever spent in my life.

The next four or five days were the longest days I've ever spent in my life.

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What changes, if any, need to be made to the sentence?:

Johnny dusted off a table with his jacket ,and started taking things out of the sack and lining them up neatly.

Johnny dusted off a table with his jacket and started taking things out of the sack and lining them up neatly.

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Correct the sentence:

Mrs. Trimm is the best teacher ever!

Mrs. Trimm is the best teacher!

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Where did they find Dally after Johnny killed the Soc?

At Buck's house
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Who invented the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

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Correct the sentence:

A toe nudged me, in the ribs.

A toe nudged me in the ribs.

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