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1. From his post in the mountains, Andy Bernard can see everyone entering and leaving the town, he uses flares to communicate with the other lookouts.
2. Electricity is really an abstract concept, it can't be seen, felt, or smelled.
3. Josie, Don's Cairn terrier, will bark at anything that moves, squirrels, wind blown leaves, passing cars, and her own shadow will start her yapping.
4. Rosalie Hale told the travel agents she wanted to fly around the world in a hot air balloon, they just rolled their eyes and laughed at her.
5. What is this categorized as? The boy accidentally knocked over the girls books. Then picked up the girls books.
6. Cassie has difficulties getting to her 8 a.m. Math class on time, she always watches too many late night movies and then hits the snooze button on her alarm once too often.
7. After the pitcher decided to walk toward the other dugout, the fans started booing.
8. Which best describes the following:Looking at his watch, Vance realized he was going to be late.
9. Since you left, however, I am sad.
10. "Smushing" two or more independent clauses together with no punctuation is called a fused or run-on sentence.
11. When Matt shaved his head, his mother worried that he had joined a cult the realreason for the bald head, however, was that Matt could get more attention andsympathy from girls who thought he was sick with a dread disease.
12. Ron Weasley has a freckle on his nose, and I have some on my cheeks.
13. Catrina frosted the birthday cake and I lit all sixteen candles.
14. When using a coordinating conjunction to join two independent clauses (complete thoughts), you must insert a comma before the conjunction.
15. To determine if a clause can stand on its own, you can ask the question: "Is it true that _____ ?"
16. Aragorn bought seven new posters at the mall; he was disappointed when he realized they wouldn't all fit in his room.
17. List the coordinating conjunctions
18. Raccoons are also destructive and unpredictable, even when tame or born into captivity.
19. Bernadette Wolowitz mixed up the numbers for the hospital and the pizza place in her phone the nurse was very confused when she ordered two pepperoni calzones.
20. Jeremiah likes to put peanut butter on his pancakes instead of syrup, the smell is appealing, but I wouldn't want to eat anything so sticky that early in the morning.
21. Which is a correct way to fix the following run on sentence? We bought a hammer we bought nails.
22. Rachel painstakingly ironed her linen shirt all the while, she was thinking how pointless this chore was since linen begins to wrinkle the moment after the last button is fastened.
23. Last night, Julie went to the movies and ate out at the diner.
24. The barn was very large it smelled of hay and horses.
25. Bored with the lecture on comma splices and fused sentences, Jayson started poking Kim with the sharp tip of his pencil finally she whirled around and slugged him in the mouth
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