Grammar Review

During lunch, at the campus cafeteria, Mildred noticed the dirty tables, the overworked cashiers, and the exorbitant price for a watery soda.

• remove the comma after 'lunch'

• remove the comma after 'cashiers'

• sentence is correct

The slimy smelly lettuce on my burrito made me ask the manager to return my 99 cents.

• add a comma after 'burrito'

• add a comma after 'slimy'

• add no commas

Kerry Ann, __________ hates spiders, wears bug-stomping boots wherever she goes.

• who

• whom

Julie is a real hypochondriac when her stomach hurts, she is certain that she has a bleeding ulcer, and if she has a backache, she believes that she has cancer of the spine. This is an example of a....

• fused sentence

• comma splice

(1)Maria was not watching her plate of barbecue very carefully. (2)So Santana, the family beagle, snatched a chicken leg hanging over the edge. (3)As baked beans and potato salad slid onto Maria's new sandals.

Identify the fragment.

• sentence 1

• sentence 2

• sentence 3

• no fragments in this sentence

"Don't touch those cookies!" warned Mrs. Patterson. "__________ made with termites and honey for Freddie, my pet anteater."

• their

• there

• they're

Mom was furious when she arrived home from work. __________ were muddy paw prints on the new white sofa, a huge grape juice stain on the carpeting, and a message from the high school wanting to know why my little brother George wasn't in class.

• their

• there

• they're

The Mitchells cut __________ grass so infrequently that early in the morning, you can find wild rabbits feasting on the long green shoots.

• their

• there

• they're

My cat Buster loves to nap on warm appliances when he sleeps on top of the microwave oven, his tail swipes the glass door like a windshield wiper.

• comma splice

• fused sentence

At the back of the classroom, Nina sat with her arms crossed, glaring at her teacher, Professor Beane, her body language indicated that English literature was her least favorite subject.

• comma splice

• fused sentence