Grammar and Language Workbook

1. The advertisement for the car stated, “the five-speed manual transaxle was designed to
provide maximum power and ease of shifting.”
2. Heather said She and I could take some extra flyers to distribute on Saturday.
3. the clipper ship had five tremendous masts that looked as if they reached the clouds.
4. To many people, Willie Mays (he was the center fielder for the New York and San
Francisco Giants in the 1950s and 1960s) was the greatest baseball player of his time.

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5. The candidate promised to Support any bill that would lower taxes on the middle class.
6. Asunción is the capital of the South American country of Paraguay. (The country is
entirely landlocked.)
7. Don Quixote, the famous Spanish knight created by Miguel de Cervantes, observed that
he never thrust his nose “Into other men’s porridge.”
8. Mayonnaise (The name comes from a French battle) is a dressing made of egg yolk, oil,
and lemon juice.
9. Speaking of time, the Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote that it “Teaches many lessons.”
10. Today, parachutes are made of nylon. (formerly, they were made of silk.)
11. The writer of Proverbs 19 cautions that where “there is no vision, the people perish.”
12. Moles (They are the small, burrowing creatures that cause such damage to gardens and
lawns) can barely see at all.
13. I started dancing lessons when I was five because my parents felt I had a natural gift for
movement.
14. In describing a character in her novel Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen writes, “she
was sensible and clever, but eager in everything.”