English Grammar for the Utterly Confused - Laurie Rozakis 2003
Answer key
Chapter 8 Writing Correct and Complete Sentences
Part 3 Sentence Sense
True-False Questions
1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. F 8. F 9. F 10. T 11. T 12. T 13. F 14. F 15. T 16. F 17. T 18. F 19. T 20. T
Completion Questions
1. main 2. comma splice 3. run-on sentences 4. Independent 5. Dependent 6. semicolon 7. nonetheless 8. dependent clause 9. main clause 10. independent 11. can 12. personal style 13. simpler 14. concise 15. cut off from
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. b 2. c 3. c 4. d 5. b 6. b 7. a 8. c 9. d 10. a 11. b 12. c 13. c 14. a 15. d 16. d
Further Exercises
Not surprisingly, each type of insect has its own taste. One type of caterpillar has been compared to a mushroom omelet; a Mexican stinkbug has a pleasant cinnamon flavor despite its unappealing name. Catherine Fowler, a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, described the taste of Pandora moth caterpillars as “very good—like a scrambled egg omelet with mushrooms.” Tom Turpin, a professor of entomology at Purdue University, enjoys “chocolate chirpy cookies,” which are chocolate chip cookies with roasted crickets. Gene DeFoliart likes greater wax moth larvae, which taste like bacon when deep fried.