SerranoNotes+-+Chap+5+and+6+Clauses+-+Answer+Key+for+Quiz+3


 * Part I Directions: Identify the problems in the following sentences as comma-splice __[CS]__ or run-together sentence __[RT]__. Correct the sentences appropriately. Some may not contain any errors.**
 * 1) __RT__
 * 2) __CS__
 * 3) __RT__
 * 4) **CS requires that both clause be complete, but the first clause is not unless it is made into a question. When only thing that’s lacking is the punctuation, RT would be best fitting.**
 * 5) __RT__
 * 6) __CS__
 * 7) __RT__
 * 8) __RT__
 * 9) **There are no commas around, “whatever comes out of my mouth”, which modifies “anything” as an appositive noun clause.**
 * 10) __RT__
 * 11) __CS__
 * 12) **Correct:** //Was it Davis or David? I keep forgetting.//
 * 13) __Correct__
 * 14) **The last clause can be reworded into: so people says, “people are special”.**
 * Part II Directions: Correct the grammar problems in the following sentences. Some may not contain any errors.**
 * 1) People do not have souls, but they do have __consciousness; therefore, they__ are not superior to a dog, a dolphin, a germ, an atom, or a single electron.
 * 2) What is a half__-man and a hal__f-monkey?
 * 3) **No need for comma between direct objects.**
 * 4) __What if you__ could genetically combine a man and a monkey?
 * 5) **“What if” should not be divided by a comma when there is only one clause within the sentence. That clause, in turn, must be independent.**
 * 6) Correct.
 * 7) **Whither means “when”****à Must a half-man have human rights especially when he is a monkey too?**
 * 8) Correct
 * 9) What about a vegetated __human? They__ are humans!
 * 10) **“;” will serve as a conjunction, and therefore does not fit.**
 * 11) But then you realize that a human gene shares 96% of its components with that of a __banana. Is it__ a human too?
 * 12) **You can’t have half of the sentence make an affirmative statement and then the rest make a question.**
 * 13) __Correct__
 * 14) **“Yet” is a conjunction.**
 * 15) __When the universe__ was born, the laws of __physics were established, and the__ past and the __future were determined__.
 * 16) Human consciousness does not come from your “soul” or your “__heart” because__ every single particle inside your brain follows the universal laws, and where and when the electrochemical messengers will travel, and many other complexities were already mapped from the start of time and space.
 * 17) **No comma before “because”**
 * 18) The stopping of the heart is symbolic of a person’s __death, but, as__ long as the brain is not choked for very long, however, manually pumping the heart will save the victim.
 * 19) **Comma-splice**
 * 20) When and how is death a true __death, when a__ person can, in the modern world, die temporarily and still return to life?
 * 21) **“For” is synonymous with “because”. It’s not adverbial clause of “cause”, but “time”, also different from “adverbial clause of condition” because “time” indicates actual status, while “condition” indicates potential status.**
 * 22) __Correct__
 * 23) __Correct__
 * 24) The cold, calculative side of war reveals the __reality that, as more__ people live, the less each person is worth because the individuals can always be replaced for the same functional purpose of killing.
 * 25) I __think; therefore__ I am.
 * 26) __While what__ I say is __true, and people__ know I am __right, they__ avoid the truth so that the rest of the lies – their life, their existence as human beings, may be justified as the truths.
 * 27) __When there__ is not enough resource to feed and satisfy all people, an average full-grown adult homo sapien sapien is worth less than a nugget of gold.
 * 28) Correct
 * 29) Correct