For help with punctuating transitional phrases, parenthetical or contrasting expressions, and absolute phrases, see pages 327-29 of A Writer's Guidebook.
 


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Exercise 32 Commas with transitional phrases, parenthetical or contrasting expressions, and absolute phrases
Insert commas where necessary in the following sentences.

1. Whenever Jim hears the national anthem no matter where he is he starts to cry.

 

2. Therefore he has to wear sunglasses to baseball games.

 

3. I slept all night on the hard, damp ground but not comfortably.

 

4. My dog Tracey her tail wagging would howl when she saw my father's car.

 

5. My shoes caked with mud I waited in the anteroom.

 

6. The owl its round eyes staring unblinkingly watched for field mice.

 

7. There is not as far as I know a better hamburger anywhere in this town.

 

8. Anyway you weren't injured.

 

9. My brother and I squabbled over the last warm tortilla our manners disappearing in the presence of our mother's good cooking.

 

10. He turned out to be a madman not a doctor.

 

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