SENTENCE INTERRUPTERS

Select the correct sentence

• Mrs. Woodside, our English teacher recommended that we read the, The Yearling.

• Mrs. Woodside, our English teacher recommended, that we read the The Yearling.

• Mrs. Woodside, our English teacher, recommended that we read the The Yearling.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.4.2C

Select the correct sentence

• My cousin, Joyann is my favourite cousin.

• My cousin Joyann, is my favourite cousin.

• My cousin, Joyann, is my favourite cousin.

• none

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.4.2C

Select the correct sentence

• The blouse that matches my skinny jeans is the one I want.

• The blouse that matches my skinny jeans, is the one I want.

• The blouse, that matches, my skinny jeans is the one I want.

• The blouse, that matches my skinny jeans, is the one I want.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Yury lived on Cat Island his favourite place. Where does the dash go?

• after "favourite"

• after "Cat Island"

• After "Yury"

• After 'lived"

After eighty years of dreaming, my elderly dad realized it was time to finally revisit the land of his youth - Eleuthera. What does this dash do to the sentence?

• Emphasizes where he came from

• as a pause

• Nothing

• Both b and c

What does a single dash emphasizes?

• Material at the end

• Material at the beginning

• Material in the middle

• Both A & B

Where would you place the dash in this sentence? "The Office a harmless television program or a dangerously subversive guide to deliquency in the workplace?"

• Before "in the workplace"

• Nowhere

• After "The Office"

• Both a and b can work