PUNCTUATION QUESTIONS.docx

Despite a fearsome cough that for two months racked his \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ three ribs in a particularly violent episode --- the decrepit nobleman had greedily held fast his grip on life.\ \ Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? 2. Naturally...

Despite a fearsome cough that for two months racked his \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ three ribs in a particularly violent episode --- the decrepit nobleman had greedily held fast his grip on life.\ \ Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? 2. Naturally, Sweden's aggressive new policies came with a price tag --- particularly its massive investment in \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ creating a large federal deficit, in 1934 Sweden became the first country to fully emerge from the Depression and foreign creditors were quickly recompensed. 3. Although Mendeleev's table eliminated the chemical inconsistencies of the telluric helix, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ by standard chemical terminology, large pockets of the scientific community remained resistant to the notion of periodicity. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? 4. The very scope of the action dictates the terms of this contract and renders the least modification of them inadmissible, something making them null and void. Thus, although perhaps they have never been stated \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ the same everywhere and tacitly conceded and recognized everywhere. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? 5. For the next forty years, Michelangelo continued to introduce the stark, complex, and disturbing motifs found in his Library to the architecture, sculptures, and paintings \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ the Mannerist movement. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? 6. Remarkable, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ through the frosted window to where Lady Cress was dancing a quadrille. She's gone along with this the whole while. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? 7. Apart from extending unemployment benefits, the government also reinforced its agricultural industry by subsidizing farms when necessary \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ to protect the price of domestically grown crops. 8. Unfortunately, because Chancourtois inexplicably included several polyatomic ions on the helix, and published his report using \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ was largely ignored. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? 9. The social contract's terms, when they are well understood, can be reduced to a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ member alienates himself totally to the whole community together with all his rights. 10. Disquieting in design, and utterly without regard for classical convention, the vestibule is an exceedingly high, narrow room, whose massive dark and imposing staircase seems to push visitors outward, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 11. Many of the pieces in the room are composed of natural, local materials of Latin America. Other pieces throughout the exhibition \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ traditional design but are reconstructed out of contemporary materials (like aluminum or fiberglass). 12. Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited lung disease affecting the secretory \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ responsible for producing mucus and sweat. This disease causes debilitating breathing and digestive deficiency. 13. Plato argues that taboos and societal norms influence our ability to change the form of societal \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ that conventional ideas and historical traditions can prevent civilizations from being able to imagine new systems of organization. 14. Fourteen years have come and gone, bringing with them 256 wins, 9 All-Star games, and 2 World Series of my very own. My elbow is shot, my shoulder is in tatters, and my back barks at me when I get out of bed every morning, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ I can walk away from this game with my head held high and my heart full of pride. 15. The Cannibalism Manifesto, written by Oswald de Andrade and published in 1928, critiqued European colonialism and expressed that Brazil's greatest strength \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ to "cannibalize" other cultures by actively selecting and reappropriating the cultural principles of others in a new way. 16. Moderno explores the progression of interior design and its relation to daily \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ also questioning how design reflected the political climate of the time. 17. As sweat is produced from sweat glands, cells near the skin absorb the sodium, chloride, and other ions produced \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) does not allow for absorption to occur. This, in turn, can lead to grave complications. 18. Plato seeks to replace the kinship system with a new model in which people who aren't blood relatives still interact in ways now reserved for familiar \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ forms a communal family: "every time he meets any of them, he will assume he is meeting his brother, or sister, or, mother, or son, or daughter --- or the child or parent of one of these." 19. Life, we've seemingly \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ a commodity most effectively measured in years. 20. Money that was previously pumped into developing markets is now being funneled toward a much \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ the general feeling among the electorate is that the country is as healthy as ever.