Grammar and Language Workbook

12. You can determine how effective a sun block is by checking the number on the bottle.
13. The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights the Aurora Australis is the same phenomenon in
the southern hemisphere is a breathtaking display of lights often seen in the summer sky.
14. New York City has the highest percentage of people who take public transportation to
work San Francisco is second among the country’s fifteen largest cities.
15. Juanita’s brother has started his own business as a food caterer.
16. Surprisingly, the two states that grow the most cotton they are Texas and 
California are not in the South at all.
17. The Toronto Blue Jays, one of two Canadian teams the Montreal Expos are the other are
the first baseball team to win consecutive World Series since the New York Yankees.
18. The real name of the comic actor and director Albert Brooks is believe it or not Albert
Einstein!
19. On our trip west, we toured the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana.
20. The percentage of women on active duty is highest in the Air Force in 1994, almost 15
percent and lowest in the Marines.
21. When swimming at the beach, it’s important to be aware of the undertow.
22. Among the languages other than English spoken in American homes are Spanish,
French, and Tagalog, the language of the Philippines.
23. Few people know that the song “America the Beautiful” was inspired by the view from
a specific place Pikes Peak in Colorado.
24. James Madison he was the fourth president was a good friend and political ally of
Thomas Jefferson, the man he succeeded in the nation’s highest office.
25. The film Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg, won the Oscar for best picture
in 1993.
26. Jerome’s eight-year-old brother don’t ask me why wondered if he could borrow my
electric shaver.
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