ENG II B
UNIT 3: COMMAS
KEY
1.
FORMATIVE 3
My new alarm clock didn’t go off, my breakfast was cold, and the school bus had a flat tire.
2.
The river overflowed again and filled our basement and our neighbors’ basements. C
3.
Alligators, sharks, and snakes are dangerous, annoying nuisances in Florida.
4.
I took a flashlight, sleeping bag, extra tennis shoes, pocket knife, and rain parka on our camping trip.
5.
James Garfield, Harry Truman, and Gerald Ford were left-handed U.S. Presidents.
6.
At the gymnastics meet Les performed on the parallel bars, the rings, and the high bar.
7.
A little, blond child in faded blue jeans emerged from the shrubbery to stare at the mail carrier.
8.
Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr were wives
of Henry VIII.
9.
Sylvia admires the great women novelists: Jane Austen, the Brontё sisters, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Elizabeth
Bowen, George Eliot, and many others.
10. With a quick, powerful leap to the ground, the stuntman bounded over the burning balcony.
KMH
taken from Warriner’s English Composition and Grammar, 4th Course
Exercise 2, page 571-572
rev. 03/14