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DIRECTIONS: Work each sentence, diagram, and write down all the adjective and adverb questions that are answered. Then, answer the bolded questions.Dulce and Martha have been friends and enemies over the years. What tense is sentence 1, which words tell you this tense? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Silly cats and dogs beg for scraps of food during the dinner party.List the nouns in sentence 3: ______________________________________________________List the prepositions in sentence 3: _________________________________________________Everyone will be sparkling and stunning at the dance on Saturday night. Why isn’t there a comma before the conjunction in this sentence? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Jack desperately wanted his bone in his bed, or he would hide it from the cat.Why is there a comma before the conjunction in sentence 8?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________CORRECTIONS: Actively read the article, label the issues, and correct the underlined portions.SVAP/A (pronoun-antecedent) ?≡ (capitalize )pl (plural) s (singular) pa (past) pr (present) f (future) ‘ (apostrophe) ./!/? (end mark) ? (confused words) list (items in a list) =adj. (equal adjectives)LAND (letters/addresses/names/dates)NE(nonessential) part (participle)CSent (compound sentence)(10)On December 6 about 170 U.S. soldiers returned home to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington on the last charter flight to return to the base from Iraq. The troops(11) are greeted and celebrated by family and friends during a welcome ceremony at the base. Over the next several days, the last few thousands of ?U.S. troops in Iraq will also return home. By December 31, the U.S. will have formally withdrawn the last of(12) their remaining troops in Iraq. It has been nearly nine years since the start of the war in Iraq on March 2003. The U.S. invaded Iraq to(13) find, and destroy dangerous weapons and remove from power the(14) countries leader, Saddam Hussein. Weapons were never found, but Hussein was caught and tried for crimes against his people. Iraqis later voted (15)in free elections, the first, in 50 years. But religious and ethnic divisions began to tear the country apart. In most parts of Iraq the conflict has quieted down, but bursts of violence still shatter the peace. America's combat mission in Iraq came to a formal end last year.(16)At that time tens of thousands of U.S. combat forces left the country. Nearly 40,000 troops stayed (17)behind however to advise and assist Iraqi security forces. On October 21, President Barack Obama announced that all U.S. forces would be leaving Iraq by the end of December. This will meet the terms of a security pact the U.S. and Iraq signed in 2008. "Our troops will definitely be home for the holidays," Obama said. (18)His praised the efforts of the American troops who have served in Iraq. "They will cross the border with their heads held high, proud of their success," he said. ................
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