Practice with Commas*

1. When we arrived at Salou's beach we saw immediately that we were overdressed for the occasion.

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2. The man at the next table complained loudly and the waiter stomped off in disgust.

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3. Uncle Swen's dulcimers disappeared as soon as he put them up for sale but he always kept one for himself.

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4. For the camp the children needed sturdy shoes which were expensive.

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5. Ed's house which is located on thirteen acres was completely furnished with bats in the rafters and mice in the kitchen.

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6. The helicopter with its 100,000-candlepower spotlight illuminating the area circled above.

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7. Norman Mailer's first novel The Naked and the Dead was a best-seller.

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8. My youngest sister who plays left wing on the team now lives at The Sands, a beach house near Los Angeles.

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9. Evolution as far as we know doesn't work this way.

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10. Naturalist Arthur Cleveland Bent remarked "In part the peregrine declined unnoticed because it is not adorable."

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*These practice exercises are from Diana Hacker's The Bedford Handbook, 5th edition: Instructor's Annotated Edition. Bedford Books: Boston, 1998: 426-53.

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