Practice with Dashes

1. Along the wall are the bulk liquids, sesame seed oil, honey, safflower oil, and that half-liquid "peanuts only" peanut butter.

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2. Consider the amount of sugar in the average person's diet; 104 pounds per year, 90 percent more than that consumed by our ancestors.

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3. Everywhere we looked there were little kids. A box of Cracker Jacks in one hand and mommy or daddy's sleeve in the other.

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4. Kiere took a few steps back, came running full speed, kicked a mighty kick. And missed the ball.

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5. Everything that went wrong: from the peeping Tom at her window last night to my head-on collision today, was blamed on our move.

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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: 480-81.

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