I. Supply all necessary punctuation in the sentences below

1. Don't eat that Priscilla who was always watching her weight exclaimed. It's sugar-based cereal.

2. People in most service professions have nine-to-five jobs; therefore, they often work in shifts.

3. In the old movie that ran between 8 and 10 p.m. John Wayne wore a ten-gallon hat; he also wore leather-soled boots.

4. The old daisy wheel printer became obsolete—so the not for profit office in which Meg was working—got a new laser printer.

5. We went to the lake to go fishing but we found that the cabin was bug-infested, so we came home after a day and one half.

6. Herbert's mother-in-law grew up in the mid-twentieth century and had a lot of old-fashioned ideas.

7. ‘He's a first class guy’, Jerry said of his redheaded friend Moe, who had changed from his brown and green plaid jacket into a natty-white suit.

8. Carlos put on his T-shirt—went to get his chest X-rayed—then came home to his L-shaped room and read his e-mail.

9. Sam told his ex-wife that he would keep the children over the summer, and she gave him a big red-lipped smile.

10. After a fact, finding search the President elect said he would put in far reaching legislation that was pro-business.

11. At the wedding, Steven wore an expensive lightweight tux and Sasha wore an off-the-shoulder gown with a three-foot train, on which Molly and Courtney insisted on stepping as they followed her down the flower-strewn aisle.

12. After Sasha married she found herself with a mother-in-law, a father-in-law, two step-sisters-in-law and an aunt on Steven's mother's side, who spoke very loudly and annoyed everyone.

13. The couple booked a first-class flight to Hawaii and stayed in a gorgeous high-rise apartment with a view of the ocean, so Sasha nearly forgot about all the in-laws and the annoying aunt.

14. Steven thought Sasha's bleach-blond mother very bossy and her bald-headed father quite gruff, but he decided to put up with it anyway because he loved Sasha.

15. Their new home contained a twenty-foot long kitchen, a ten-foot by twelve-foot dining room and three bedrooms, that were ten--twelve and fourteen-feet square.

16. Their neighbors Whitney and Cece took a six-mile hike through the woods and returned with wildflowers for the bride and groom.

17. Steven and Sasha were glad they had moved to a cul de sac near a sushi take out on Lennon Ave. in Trenton New Jersey and felt in the not too distant future, that they would learn to love their neighbors and to live happily ever after.

18. Meanwhile, back in New York City the six-foot six-inch man on the subway looked down on most people in the car.

19. The taxi cab driver was upset, that the man chose to ride the over crowded subway instead of hiring a cab—in which case the cabby might get a three dollar tip.

20. Wendy, who had just flown into Atlanta, told her son David to stand in the baggage-claim area and watch for their red and black luggage.

21. David stood by a man in a blue-green T-shirt with a V-neck, who wanted to talk about the Baltimore Orioles and David—a baseball fan—was happy to hear it and gave him a snaggle-toothed grin.

22. When the luggage came, David and his mother carried the two twenty-pound suitcases about fifty feet to the exit and waited for David's dad to pick them up in a rental car.

23. "I'm hungry", said David as they passed a hot dog stand, so his dad stopped the car and paid two dollars each for the hot dogs and one dollar and fifty cents each for the soft drinks.

24. Wendy wanted nothing from the roadside stand—all she wanted was to lie in the back seat of the car and enjoy her well-earned vacation—she hoped it would start soon.

25. When the vacation was over, the family took a business-class flight back to Houston and all agreed they had had a super terrific trip to Atlanta and looked forward to a visit from Wendy's step-sisters Robbyn and Jill.

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