Grammar and Language Workbook

3. Nine-tenths of the students voted to donate the leftover money to SADD.
4. I got to supervise the youngest campers’ re-creation period at the crafts cabin.
5. Most of our lambs this year were born between midnight and 3:30 
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6. Stacie’s grandmother complimented Michael for being so well-read.
7. Nicole was happy to finish twenty
 
first in the gymnastics meet.
8. The witness just repeated that he did not re-collect anything unusual happening on the
morning in question.
9. The material I purchased for the blouse was a loosely-woven linen/cotton blend.
10. Harry Truman was elected vice-president in 1944 and assumed the presidency on the
death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945.
11. The news report stated that antigovernment forces had moved to within three miles of
the presidential palace.
12. John F. Kennedy was president of the U.S. from 1961 to 1963. 
13. Matthew was the best we had ever seen at the valuable skill of self promotion.
14. The surprise guest was the very well-known star of such films as Hercules Slays the
Monster, Don’t Answer That!, and Calling All Cornballs.
15. My brother was quite stunned when he learned that the Jets had hired the ex-coach of
the Philadelphia Eagles. 
16. Forty
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four entries to the essay contest were received by the deadline of midnight last
night.

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Lesson 94
Abbreviations
Use only one period if an 
abbreviation
occurs at the end of a sentence that would
normally take a period of its own. If an abbreviation occurs at the end of a sentence that
ends with a question mark or an exclamation point, use the period and the second
punctuation mark.
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