EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences

EXERCISE 20–6Run-on sentences

Click on Run-on sentence if the word group is a run-on sentence or on OK if it is a correct sentence. Before working the exercise, read the examples, which are the first two sentences in the paragraph from which the exercise items are taken.

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 1 of 10: No permanent work is available, moreover, the money earned by picking crops is not enough to feed the family.

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 2 of 10: Union organizers have talked to the field workers about organizing and striking, and although Tom, the oldest Joad son, has listened to them, he has not yet joined them.

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 3 of 10: Tom is in hiding because he has accidentally killed a man in a fight.

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 4 of 10: He spends all his daylight hours alone he has lots of time to think about his family’s situation.

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 5 of 10: Finally becoming convinced that life is unfair for his people, Tom decides to leave the family, find the union men, and work with them.

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 6 of 10: As he prepares to leave, his mother expresses her worries, she asks him how she will know where he is.

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 7 of 10: Tom’s reassurances are almost mystical: He says that he will always be there alongside the working people, whether they are fighting to put food on their tables or are growing their own food and building their own houses.

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 8 of 10: If Tom had had a copy of the Wobblies’ “little red songbook,” he could have found less mystical words.

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 9 of 10: Every copy of the songbook contains the Wobblies’ Preamble, the first sentence in the Preamble is unmistakably clear: “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.”

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EXERCISE 20–6 Run-on sentences - 10 of 10: Tom would have understood those words he would have believed them, too.