Punctuation

If I don't have time to study for the upcoming test, I am not going to do well__ if I don't do well, I will cry.

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The weather was terrible last week__however, the temperature has been near 24 °C this week.

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The earthquake alarm has sounded in town__we need to go inside immediately.

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The traffic conditions become increasingly bad as companies end work___the traffic on the highways is standing still.

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When we get to the station__we must move quickly to the train, or we will miss it.

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You should have only one reason for missing the assignment__you were hospitalized.

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Most people living in the city use public transportation, but some people still −stubbornly maintaining that they are protecting their personal freedoms__drive

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Choose the correct sentence.

• Dracula knocked several times no one came to the door.

• Dracula knocked several times no one came; to the door.

• Dracula knocked several times; no one came to the door.

• Dracula knocked several times, no one came to the door.

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Just consider some of the misconceptions about pigs, that they are dirty, that they carry diseases, and that they are unintelligent.

• NO CHANGE
• pigs:
• pigs
• pigs;

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Check punctuation!

"I've fallen in love with a circus clown!" Stacy Mae finally had the nerve to say to her shocked fiance.

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