Add A Comma After Lifeguards

According to water safety experts and lifeguards, people, who don't know how to swim, or who can't swim well should never swim alone at an unguarded beach.
Selected Answer:
b. Remove the comma after people
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after lifeguards
b. Remove the comma after people
c. Remove the comma after people and the comma after swim
d. Remove the comma after swim and add a comma after well
Question 2
"I don't like to see people who are in positions of power being mean to those around them," said Jerry Dunn a chemical engineer.
Selected Answer:
d. Add a comma after Dunn
Answers:
a. Add a comma after people
b. Add commas after people and after power
c. Change the comma after them to a period
d. Add a comma after Dunn
Question 3
If Bob doesn't clean the garage soon, he won't be able to park the car, the snow blower, or the lawn mower, inside at all.
Selected Answer:
d. Remove the comma after mower
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after soon
b. Remove the comma after car
c. Remove the comma after blower
d. Remove the comma after mower
Question 4
Without ever looking at his notes, the commencement speaker said, "not to speak without listening."
Selected Answer:
a. Remove the comma after notes
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after notes
b. Add a comma after speaker
c. Remove the comma after said
d. Add a comma after to
Question 5
The baby arrived in April, 2006 and was crawling within five months, walking within 10 months, and talking before she turned a year old.
Selected Answer:
b. Add a comma after 2006
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after April
b. Add a comma after 2006
c. Add commas after arrived and after 2006
d. Remove the comma after 10 months
Question 6
When Dan lived in Austin, Texas, he used to watch bats from the famous, bat colony fly over beautiful Town Lake each evening at dusk.
Selected Answer:
c. Remove the comma after famous
Answers:
a. Remove the commas after Austin and after Texas
b. Remove the comma after Texas
c. Remove the comma after famous
d. Add a comma after beautiful
Question
7
Since Joe moved to Ohio in June, 1995, he has not been back to his birthplace, Casper, Wyoming.
Selected Answer:
c. Remove the comma after birthplace
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after June
b. Remove the comma after 1995
c. Remove the comma after birthplace
d. Remove the comma after Casper
Question 8
The cheerful folk music was a real contrast to the dimly lit room, and the heavy German food.
Selected Answer:
c. Remove the comma after room
Answers:
a. Add a comma after cheerful
b. Add a comma after dimly
c. Remove the comma after room
d. Add a comma after heavy
Question 9
"Have you read the Jane Austen book 'Emma'?" Sandy asked Steve, "I think you could learn a lot from it about minding your own business."
Selected Answer:
b. Add a comma after the question mark
Answers:
a. Add a comma after book
b. Add a comma after the question mark
c. Change the comma after Steve to a period
d. Add a comma after it
Question 10
Henry David Jones, CEO of Jones and Jones Incorporated, did not fly his own jet, The Eagle, to Barbados yesterday, because it had been malfunctioning and wasn't safe.
Selected Answer:
a. Remove the commas after Jones and after Incorporated
Answers:
a. Remove the commas after Jones and after Incorporated
b. Remove the commas after jet and after Eagle
c. Remove the comma after yesterday
d. Add a comma after malfunctioning
Question 11
Dan was extremely hungry, and ordered scrambled eggs with ham, wheat toast, hash browns, orange juice, and coffee.
Selected Answer:
a. Remove the comma after hungry
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after hungry
b. Add a comma after eggs
c. Hyphenate scrambled eggs
d. Remove the comma after juice
Question 12
The bamboo patio furniture, which we bought five years ago, is starting to look old and I think we should consider replacing it with new, better-quality furniture.
Selected Answer:
b. Add a comma after old
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after ago
b. Add a comma after old
c. Add a comma after think
d. Remove the comma after new
Question 13
Ernest Hemingway's greatest masterpiece, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," is about the Spanish Civil War and the price people paid, while it took place.
Selected Answer:
c. Add a comma after War
Answers:
a. Remove the commas after masterpiece and after Tolls
b. Add a comma after Spanish
c. Add a comma after War
d. Remove the comma after paid
Question 14
Kent State students who fail 10,000-level courses, can retake those courses to improve their grade point averages and have more academic opportunities.
Selected Answer:
a. Add a comma after students
Answers:
a. Add a comma after students
b. Replace the hyphen between 10,000 and level with a comma
c. Remove the comma after 10,000-level courses
d. Add a comma after averages
Question 15
Take this bike to George, who, by the way, is also a competitive, triathlete.
Selected Answer:
d. Remove the comma after competitive
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after George
b. Remove the comma after who
c. Remove the commas after way
d. Remove the comma after competitive
Question 16
Because it is Sue's birthday, Sam decided to buy her a huge chocolate cake, invite lots of good friends, and hire a chef to prepare a six-course, gourmet, dinner.
Selected Answer:
d. Remove the comma after gourmet
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after birthday
b. Add a comma after huge
c. Remove the comma after friends
d. Remove the comma after gourmet
Question 17
Gena said: "Wait Bob, I want to go shopping with you. I need a pair of brown leather shoes to match my suit."
Selected Answer:
c. Remove the comma after Bob
Answers:
a. Change the colon after said to a comma
b. Add a comma after Wait
c. Remove the comma after Bob
d. Add a comma after brown
Question 18
From May 3, 2007 to June 4, 2008, Sam was living in Reno, Nevada, and working in Provo, Utah.
Selected Answer:
c. Remove the comma after Nevada
Answers:
a. Add a comma after 2007
b. Remove the comma after 2008
c. Remove the comma after Nevada
d. Remove the comma after Provo
Question 19
"You should read a book, Steve," Carol said. "Because I really want to finish the book I'm reading, 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It's a fascinating, beautifully written novel."
Selected Answer:
b. Change the period after said to a comma and lowercase Because
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after read a book
b. Change the period after said to a comma and lowercase Because
c. Remove the comma after reading
d. Remove the comma after fascinating
Question 20
Please finish washing the dishes, after you take this soup to Ben Stevens, the man who lives in the brick house across the street.
Selected Answer:
a. Remove the comma after dishes
Answers:
a. Remove the comma after dishes
b. Remove the comma after Stevens
c. Add a comma after man
d. Add a comma after house