Commas and Parenthetical Expressions

The names we had picked out in advance-Shadow, Scamp, and Skip, didn't seem to fit once we met the puppies in person.

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• Skip--

• Skip:

• Skip

Three of us kids excitedly took our places in line for the roller coaster, but Ray, being too young to ride had to settle for an ice cream with Mom instead.

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• Ray, being too you to ride,

• Ray, being too young, to ride

• Ray being too young to ride,

These days, with information so easily available via the Internet; it's easy to forget that library card catalogs were once the starting point for research projects.

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• Internet, its

• Internet; its

• Internet, it's

My friend and I wanted to go to the beach, so we gathered our change together and got on the bus.

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• the beach so we

• the beach so, we

• the beach; so we

Next, my sister and I, braided each other's hair.

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• Next my sister and I,

• Next my sister, and I

• Next, my sister and I

My siblings and I spent our summers at our grandparents' farm, where Grandpa's firefly hunting expeditions kept us up long past our bedtimes.

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• kept us up long, past,

• kept us up, long past,

• kept us up, long, past

Along with fellow, magician, Roy Horn, Siegfried performed for over a decade at the Mirage resort in Las Vegas.

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• fellow magician,

• fellow, magician

• fellow magician

On the few occasions Missy ate vegetables, she liked them roasted or fried rather, then in the raw form her brother preferred.

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• fried, rather then

• fried rather then

• fried rather, then

After his knee gave out during the last lap, Jake was motivated to finish the race by the teammates, who ran alongside him, to the finish line.

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• teammates who, ran alongside him

• teammates, who ran alongside, him

• teammates who ran alongside him

The dog seemed shy, like Jenna, herself but his tail burst into motion every time she came into view.

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• Jeanna, herself

• Jenna herself,

• Jenna herself