EXERSICES

A. Insert semicolons as needed in the following sentences.

1. All the stores in our neighborhood used to be closed on Sunday now they're open all day and sometimes even on
Sunday evening.

2. The city has adjusted its traffic regulations to accommodate bicycles for example, most avenues now have clearly
marked bike lanes.

3. The appointment calendar listed Ms. Alvarado, 10:15, Mr. Barks, 11:00, and Mrs. Low, 11:45.

4. Betty Collins, a most unlikely candidate, was nominated on the first ballot, however, she told reporters that the party
would be pleased with her nomination when she won the election in November.

B. Insert semicolons where they are needed in the following sentences.

1. Because there was heavy fog, the airport was closed many travelers were delayed all night.

2. Bernie was depressed about his fortieth birthday his spirits improved, however, when he opened his presents.

3. Drivers must always remain alert it's hard to predict, I think, what people will do when they get behind a wheel.

4. The city has adjusted its traffic regulations to accommodate bicycles for example most avenues now have clearly
marked bike lanes.

5. If you like to travel, you will probably enjoy Paul Theroux's books he is a master of description.

6. Every year more and more Americans move to the Sunbelt the climate there, it seems, is irresistible.

7. The space program has always generated controversy some people believe that the money could be better spent on
earth.

C. Each of the following sentences needs either a comma or a semicolon. Put in the necessary punctuation.

1. I thought registration day would be tiring but I didn't know I'd have to stand in so many lines.

2. The dog growling and snarling snapped at me I was so frightened that I ran.

3. Professors are supposed to be absent-minded and I've seen plenty of evidence to support that claim since I've been in
college.

4. The suspect said that he had never met the victim however, the detective knew that he was lying.

5. I have read Soul on Ice but I have not read The Invisible Man.

6. The quarterback made a brilliant pass and the end crossed the goal line for the winning touchdown.

7. Ron and Mike were both in English class this morning they gave an interesting presentation on their research.

8. Riding a bicycle is excellent exercise I ride mine every day.

9. I am not interested in a trip to Asia this year however, I would like to go to Europe.

10. Not all highly educated people enjoy traveling but many world travelers are particularly well educated.
D. In the following paragraph, insert commas wherever you think they belong.

The Least Successful Car

In 1957 Ford produced the car of the decade--the Edsel. Half of the models sold proved to be spectacularly defective. If
lucky the proud owner of an Edsel could enjoy any or all of the following features: doors that wouldn't close hoods and
trunks that wouldn't open batteries that went dead horns that stuck hubcaps that dropped off paint that peeled
transmissions that seized up brakes that failed and push buttons that couldn't be pushed even with three people trying.
In a stroke of marketing genius the Edsel one of the largest and most lavish cars ever built coincided with the rising
public interest in economy cars. As Time magazine reported "It was a classic case of the wrong car for the wrong market
at the wrong time." Never popular to begin with the Edsel quickly became a national joke. One business writer at the
time likened the car's sales graph to an extremely dangerous ski slope. He added that so far as he knew there was only
one case of an Edsel ever being stolen.