Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 14

Insert commas where needed. Mark the one sentence that is correct with a C.
1. Before leaving for the gym Nikki added extra socks and a tube of shampoo to her gym bag.
2. My father said "Golf isn't for me. I can't afford to buy lots of expensive sticks so that I can lose lots of expensive white balls."
3. Clogged with soggy birds' nests the chimney had allowed dangerous gases to accumulate in our house.
4. Oscar took a time-exposure photo of the busy highway so the cars' taillights appeared in the developed print as winding red ribbons.
5. On May 16 2007 my older brother got married and exactly a year later he got divorced.
6. During the summer graduation ceremony students fanned themselves with commencement programs and parents hid in the shade of trees.
7. Leaving eight astronauts dead the space shuttle Columbia broke apart as it returned to Earth on February 1 2003.
8. "When I was little" said Luke "my brother told me it was illegal to kill praying mantises. I still don't know if that's true or not."
9. A huge side of beef its red flesh marbled with streaks of creamy fat hung from a razor-sharp steel hook.
10. A line of dancing numerals on Sesame Street kicked across the screen like a chorus line.