Grammar and Language Workbook

15. Several members of our carpool (wants, want) to start biking.
16. Either an opossum or some raccoons (strews, strew) the garbage all over the porch.
17. Where (does, do) these shoes go?
18. Either the radio or the newspapers (covers, cover) all our championship games.
19. Neither of those talk shows that you insist on listening to all the time (interests, interest) me at all!
20. (Is, Are) either of the office telephones in the conference room free now?
 Exercise 3
Add all necessary punctuation marks, including end punctuation. Draw a line
under words or phrases that should be in italics. 
If you want to read a weird novel
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and I know you do
,
try Thomas Pynchon
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1. The blues a specifically American form of music
 
was popularized by three giants Bessie
Smith Ma Rainey
 
and Louis Armstrong
2. Scott Joplin
 
composer of the song Maple Leaf Rag 1899, is the best
 
known composer of the
music known as ragtime surely you remember his music from the movie The Sting
3. Onomatopoeia is the forming of words that imitate sounds buzz hiss and twitter are good
examples
4. J M Barrie wrote Peter Pan or the Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Up yes it s a long title which is why
everyone just calls it Peter Pan

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5. Mary Renault
 
the pen name of Mary Challans
 
1905 1983 wrote wonderful historical novels
about Athens and Sparta including The King Must Die