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Business English

Level One

B. Commas. Insert necessary commas.

Write C if the sentence is correct. 

Chapter 10 Lab Assignment

Reinforcement Exercises - Commas

1. Bronte Tennyson Athens Florence London Paris and Tarzan are all towns in the state of Texas.
2. The first ball dropped in Times Square in New York City on January 1 1908 at 12 a.m. EST.
3. On May 14 1908 Charles Furnas became the first airplane passenger in the United States. 
4. The American explorer Admiral Robert Peary set out from New York City for the North Pole in July 1908.
5. Everything that happened in 1908 was bigger better faster and stranger than anything that had happened before. 
6. Some people say consequently that modern life in the United States began in 1908. 
7. Please tell us Mr. Trump what it's like to produce and star in The Celebrity Apprentice. 
8. The Celebrity Apprentice has had a variety of famous contestants including Trace Adkins Herschel Walker Joan Rivers and Cheryl Tiegs.
9. As a matter of fact these celebrity contestants compete to raise money for their favorite charities. 
10. Sam Walton the founder of Wal-Mart started out running a small store in Arkansas.
11. Wal-Mart opened its first store in Moscow on January 11 2012 in a highly populated area.
12. This store in Russia opened of course 20 years after Sam Walton's death. 
13. Nevertheless his family has continued to run the business with great success. 
14. Popular places for destination weddings include Hawaii Mexico and the Caribbean because of their warm weather. 
15. My sister Susan and her husband Gary traveled to Aruba in the Caribbean for the wedding of friends. 
16. Applications for The Amazing Race should be sent to the Casting Department 200 North Continental Boulevard El Segundo CA 90245 by the deadline.
17. Strict rules are needed however to make sure that companies don't start charging for access to public information. 
18. In February 1935 parker Brothers started selling the board game Monopoly.
19. Charles B. Darrow who was a heater salesman in Pennsylvania was the first to patent the board game Monopoly. 
20. The National Monopoly Championship will be aired on ESPN at 8 p.m. EST.

Level 2

B. Commas. Insert necessary commas. Write C if the sentence is correct.

1. Texas A&M will join the Southeastern Conference too.
2. In 1927 Herbert Hoover placed the first videoconference call from Washington to the president of AT&T in New York.
3. The "picturephone" was demonstrated at the 1964 World's Fair but the device never became popular with consumers. 
4. PictureTel a subsidiary of IBM released the first PC-based videoconferencing system in 1991.
5. In 2001 doctors conducted the first transatlantic telesurgery.
6. Today's voters are looking for honest hardworking candidates.
7. Agreeing to serve as our leader Michelle Brock worked with students and faculty to devise an online learning program. 
8. If I were you I would invest in gold.
9. When you look up the meaning of "ecotourism" in an online dictionary you learn that it is the practice of touring natural habitats in a manner meant to minimize ecological impact. 
10. Dan Bricklin who created the first spreadsheet also developed a multiuser wiki spreadsheet program. 
11. The man who created the first spreadsheet also developed a multiuser wiki spreadsheet. 
12. Because today's college graduates owe an average of $30,000 each in student loans some refer to these graduates as "Generation Broke."
13. Many of these college graduates are moving back home because they can't afford to live on their own. 
14. Only college graduates will be considered and only those with technical skills will be hired. 
15. Any increase in salaries as you might have expected is presently impossible because of declining profits. 
16. For a period of at least six months we cannot increase salaries. 
17. In 2011 the word cyberbullying was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
18. The sportswriter charged that professional football players are overpaid over privileged athletes. 

Level 3

B. Commas. Insert the necessary commas. Write a C if the sentence is correct.

1. "If you listen to your fears" said Robert H. Schuller "you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
2. You will find the index starting on page 1135 of the textbook. 
3. It is good to be confident not arrogant. 
4. "All lasting business is built on friendship" said Alfred A. Montapert. 
5. In February 2009 7500 people in Australia were left homeless because of brushfires.
6. On January 1 your Policy NO. 8643219 will expire. 
7. Claudia Operto LVN and Shaun Parrisher RN work at John Muir Medical Center. 
8. On paper diets often sound deceptively simple.
9. The better we treat our customers the more loyal they will be to our company.
10. Major responsibility for the loan lies with the signer; secondary responsibility with the cosigner. 
11. We are looking for stable not risky stocks in which to invest.
12. Motion-picture producer Samuel Goldwyn said "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
13. In short employees must be more considerate of others. 
14. Donna Meyer PhD and Victor Massaglia MD spoke at the opening session. 
15. In 2011 11500000 Toyota vehicles were recalled worldwide. 
16. It was Toyota not Ford Motor Co. that had the most recalls.
17. General Motors Corp. recalled 455901 vehicles in 2011; Ford Motor Co. 3.2 million. 
18. What it was was an international power struggle. 
19. "A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path" said Chin-Ning Chu "not chasing after the dreams of others."
20. The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.