ACT: Punctuation and Sentence Fragments and Run-Ons

Cynthia Moss has been studying elephants, since 1972 when she started the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya.

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• elephants, since 1972,

• elephants since 1972,

• elephants' since 1972

An author, lecturer, filmmaker, and a fierce advocate for elephants- which face a daunting array of threats to their survival, from droughts to human encroachment Moss is widely considered an expert on the behavior of these creatures.

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• encroachment-

• encroachment:

• encroachment,

A key finding from her intensive, field, studies is the extent to which elephant survival depends on learned behavior.

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• intensive field studies

• intensive field studies,

• intensive, field studies

The habit of pulling water into its trunk. Then releasing water into its mouth develops after months of witnessing other elephants doing so.

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• trunk and then

• trunk then by

• trunk

Whatever words remain fruiterer...apothecary...gramophones...pan-handle coffee- are often barely legible, pale fragments of yesterday's consumer culture that should strike me as silly or sad.

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• remain-

• remain,

• remain:

After all, there they are: products and businesses that no longer exist.

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• products and businesses,

• products, and businesses

• products: businesses

Yet, they themselves survive without apology, with instead, their simple claims and complex colors.

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• apology, with, instead,

• apology with instead,

• apology with instead

I appreciate the beauty of ghost signs more when I like the signs, am alone.

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• I, like, the signs

• I, like the signs,

• I like, the signs,

The Bahamas, a series of semitropical islands off the southeast coast of the United States, which are home to some of the most unusual geological formations in the world.

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• States, are

• States are

• States,

Some of these blue holes open to small contained caves others open to miles of long interconnected tunnels.

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• caves that

• caves;

• caves,