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Rewrite the following sentences, focusing on the grammar area specified in the left column. If the sentence is already correct, write No Change.
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The goose bit the mailman on the leg.
Your answer: 1. The goose bit the mailman on the leg, and ran away.
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Your answer: 2. The arsonist set the field ablaze with five gallons of gas.
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Because the store was closed.
Your answer: 3. I was unable to buy my medicine, because the store was closed.
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For the seventh time.
Your answer: 4. No, you may not play ball in the house for the seventh time.
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The rainbow stretched across the sky from the ice cream truck to the house down the lane.
Your answer: 5.
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Between the sixth and seventh floors of the building in the stairwell over in the corner.
Your answer: 6. There was a snake over in the corner of the stairwell between the sixth and seventh floors of the building.
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Since I started taking college classes.
Your answer: 7. My life has changed since I started to take college classes.
Since I have started taking college classes, my days are hectic.
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She drove the car right into the garage.
Your answer: 8. No Change.
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When the garage door was closed.
Your answer: 9. Paul’s car was damaged when the garage door closed.
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Friday nights at the diner were always busy, I prefer the activity.
Your answer: 10. I prefer to work when it’s busy at the diner on Friday nights.
Since it’s always busy at the diner on Friday nights, I prefer to work.
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Punctuating Sentences
The goose bit the mailman on the leg.
Ans:The goose bit the mailman on the leg, and ran away.
With five gallons of gas.
Ans:The arsonist set the field ablaze with five gallons of gas.
Because the store was closed
Ans:I was unable to buy my medicine, because the store was closed.
#1 is correct as it's originally written; you don't need to do anything. If you plan to keep your revision, though, be sure to delete that comma.
#2 looks fine.
#3 looks fine except you should delete the comma before "because."
Thanks, so much
Punctuating Sentences
For the seventh time.
Ans:No, you may not play ball in the house for the seventh time.
The rainbow stretched across the sky from the ice cream truck to the house down the lane.
Ans: No change.
Between the sixth and seventh floors of the building in the stairwell over in the corner.
Ans: There was a snake over in the corner of the stairwell between the sixth and seventh floors of the building.
Since I started taking college classes.
Ans:My life has changed since I started to take college classes.
OR Since I have started taking college classes, my days are hectic.
When the garage door was closed.
Ans:Paul’s car was damaged when the garage door closed.
Friday nights at the diner were always busy, I prefer the activity.
Ans:I prefer to work when it’s busy at the diner on Friday nights. OR
Since it’s always busy at the diner on Friday nights, I prefer to work
All your corrections and instances of "no change" are correct.
Congrats!!
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