Leson 2 Exercise

Lesson 2, Exercise


(Hint: ALL 12 rules learned so far are represented in this Exercise. I will help you by indicating in bold print or underlines the areas you should be concerned with. )
#2
1. After they took their baths, Ida sprinkled fairy dust on the elves#6b flying above the tub.
Rules:
(Hint: 2 different rules apply here. Is there an Introductory Clause here? Secondly, who is flying--Ida or the elves? Do elves fly? You are the author. You have to determine the meaning for your reader.)
6a #5
2. On Sanarra's vacation she went to see Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon,#5 and the Comma Museum.
Rules:
(Hint: 2 different rules apply here. There is an Introductory Phrase here, but it starts with a preposition and is short, so do we need a comma after it? Secondly, there are a Series of things which Sanarra went to see.)
4a 4a #1
3. MoJo, who lives in Alabama, finished her assignments before she ate her chocolate-covered jelly beans.
Rules:
(Hint: 3 rules apply here. Is it Essential that we know MoJo lives in Alabama in order to understand the sentence? Secondly, is the conjunction in this compound sentence coordinating or subordinating? Thirdly, what kind of adjectives describe "beans"?)
3b 4a 4a 4c
4. The playful service dog, Buddy, ate Barbie's i-pod that she just bought.
Rules:
(Hint: 3 different rules apply here. Are the adjectives describing the dog equal in importance? Secondly, Barbie only has one playful service dog. Thirdly, what kind of clause is modifying the i-pod?)
3b 4a
5. I was born in the small log cabin, which I helped my father build.
Rules:
(Hint: 2 different rules apply here. First, are the adjectives describing the cabin equal in importance--Can you switch the adjectives and still make sense? Secondly, is it Essential to know which small log cabin we are talking about?)
4a 4a
6. Please put the plate, smeared with Tina's birthday cake, into the dishwasher before it draws flies and stinks up the kitchen and attracts the gophers. 1xb 5x 5x
Rules:
(Hint: 3 rules apply here. First, is it Essential that we know the plate we are talking about is the one 'smeared with Tina's birthday cake'? Secondly, do we need a comma before the SUBORDINATING conjunction 'before'? Thirdly, be careful here. There are elements in a series present, but do we want to separate them with commas since each element is already separated with a conjunction?)
3a 3a 2 8
7 Tripping over his old blue rocking chair, Thundersbeard, spilled his drink. Nevertheless,7 he rose with dignity.
Rules:
(Hint: 4 different rules apply here. There is an Introductory Phrase to the sentence here. There are Adjectives describing the chair. Are ALL the Adjectives equal in importance to the chair? Does the word "Nevertheless" create continuity from one sentence to the next? )
4a 4a 3b
8 Winnie's cheesecake, resting on her windowsill, has gopher paw prints all over it!
Rules:
(Hint: 2 different rules apply here. There is a Participial Phrase here, but it's not introductory, and it's not ending the sentence. It is in the middle of the sentence. So what Rule number applies here. Secondly, there are Adjectives describing the prints. Are the Adjectives equal in importance to the paw?)
8 6b
9. Dagnabit, Cindy dropped her Comma Rule book on my foot and broke my toe. So,8they rushed me to the vet.
Rules:
(Hint: 3 different rules apply here. Is there an expletive here? Secondly, do we need a comma before the coordinating conjunction "and" in this Non-Compound Sentence? Thirdly, in the second sentence, do we need a comma after the Introductory Transitional Word which happens to be a coordinating conjunction?)
4a 4a
10. Winnie‘s older brother, who taught High School English, for thirty years refuses to help her grade these comma assignments.
Rule:
(Hint: only 1 rule applies here. Winnie only has one older brother.)