English Handbook Answers

1) The heading belongs in the upper left corner.
2) She wore huge dark glasses, no one recognized her.
3) A comma splice is when two sentences are improperly joined by a comma, and a fused sentence is when the two sentences just run on together, with no punctuation separating them.
4) Commas can be used to separate introductory clauses, phrases, or conjunctive adverbs from the rest of the sentence, and to create a pause.
5) A semicolon creates a stronger pause than a period; it can also be used to link two related sentences together or to list items in a long series.
6) Numbers less than or equal to ninety-nine should be spelled out.
7) Yes, plays may be underlined or typed in italics.
8) Affect, as a verb, can mean "feign" or "pretend to feel" while effect, as a verb, means "bring about" or "perform."
9) There: pronoun for a place.
Their: used to show possession.
They're: a contraction for "they are".
10) Parallel structures are used to express parallel elements in the same grammatical form.
Ex. The bunny jumped, skampered, and twisted.