Sentence of the Week review

What change should be made in this sentence?

All around us dead fruit trees rose like ghostly hands.

• Place a comma after trees

• Place a comma after rose

• Place a comma after us

• No change

What change should be made in this sentence?

Outside, lightning flashed and there was the sharp crack of thunder.

• Remove the comma after outside

• Place a comma after flashed

• Change and to for

• No change

What change should be made in this sentence?

A woman of fifty or so, plump with frizzy gray hair, came toward them.

• Add a comma after fifty

• Remove the comma after hair

• Change the period to a question mark

• No change

What type of sentence is this?

The twins, who had finished their homework, were allowed to watch half an hour of TV.

• Front-branching

• Middle-branching

• Simple

• Both middle-branching and simple

What change should be made in this sentence?

Mr. McAlester, who kept the store, was a good Arkansas man.

• Remove the comma before who

• Add a comma between good and Arkansas

• Change the comma after store to a semicolon

• No change

What type of sentence is this?

While he scrubbed the sidewalk, I stood there throwing the ball at the apartment building that faced the street.

• Complex

• Compound

• Simple

• Compound-complex

What type of sentence is this?

Lucy got rather a fright, for she found herself caught up in mid-air between the Giant's finger and thumb.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-complex

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?

As she headed down the hall to her next class Geraldine remembered.

• Add a comma after class

• Add a comma after hall

• Add a comma after headed

• No change