Punctuation For Master Class

1. Both Sona Charaipotra, an Indian American, and Dhonielle Clayton, an African American,
grew up frustrated by the lack of diverse characters in books for young people. In 2011,
these two writers joined forces to find CAKE Literary, a book packaging _______
specializes in the creation and promotion of stories told from diverse perspectives for
children and young adults.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) company,

B) company that

C) company

D) company, that

2. American writer Edwidge Danticat, who emigrated from Haiti in 1981, has won acclaim
for her powerful short stories, novels, and ________ her lyrical yet unflinching
depictions of her native country’s turbulent history, writer Robert Antoni has compared
Danticat to Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) essays, praising

B) essays and praising

C) essays praising

D) essays. Praising

3. In crafting her fantasy fiction, Nigerian-born British author Helen Oyeyemi has drawn
inspiration from the classic nineteenth-century fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Her
2014 novel Boy, Snow, Bird, for instance, is a complex retelling of the story of Snow
White, while her 2019 novel ________ offers a delicious twist on the classic tale of
Hansel and Gretel.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) Gingerbread—

B) Gingerbread,
C) Gingerbread

D) Gingerbread:

4. During the English neoclassical period (1660–1789), many writers imitated the epic
poetry and satires of ancient Greece and Rome. They were not the first in England to
adopt the literary modes of classical _______ some of the most prominent figures of the
earlier Renaissance period were also influenced by ancient Greek and Roman literature.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) antiquity, however

B) antiquity, however,

C) antiquity, however;

D) antiquity; however,

5. When external forces are applied to common glass made from silicates, energy builds up
around minuscule defects in the material, resulting in fractures. Recently, engineer Erkka
Frankberg of Tampere University in Finland used the chemical ____________________
to make a glassy solid that can withstand higher strain than silicate glass can before
fracturing.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) compound, aluminium oxide
B) compound aluminium oxide,
C) compound, aluminium oxide,
D) compound aluminium oxide

6. Stomata, tiny pore structures in a leaf that absorb gases needed for plant growth, open
when guard cells surrounding each pore swell with water. In a pivotal 2007 article, plant
cell _________________ showed that lipid molecules called phosphatidylinositol
phosphates are responsible for signalling guard cells to open stomata.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) biologist, Yuree Lee
B) biologist Yuree Lee,
C) biologist Yuree Lee
D) biologist, Yuree Lee,

7. Researchers studying magnetosensation have determined why some soil-dwelling

roundworms in the Southern Hemisphere move in the opposite direction of Earth's
magnetic field when searching for_________________ in the Northern Hemisphere, the
magnetic field points down, into the ground, but in the Southern Hemisphere, it points
up, toward the surface and away from worms' food sources.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) food:
B) food,
C) food while
D) food

8. In 1943, in the midst of World War II, mathematics professor Grace Hopper was
recruited by the US military to help the war effort by solving complex equations.
Hopper's subsequent career would involve more than just ____________________ as a
pioneering computer programmer, Hopper would help usher in the digital age.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) equations, though:
B) equations, though,
C) equations. Though,
D) equations though

9. The city of Pompeii, which was buried in ash following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
in 79 CE, continues to be studied by archaeologists. Unfortunately, as
__________________ attest, archaeological excavations have disrupted ash deposits at
the site, causing valuable information about the eruption to be lost.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) researchers, Roberto Scandone and Christopher Kilburn,

B) researchers, Roberto Scandone and Christopher Kilburn

C) researchers Roberto Scandone and Christopher Kilburn

D) researchers Roberto Scandone, and Christopher Kilburn

10. Seneca sculptor Marie Watt's blanket art comes in a range of shapes and sizes. In 2004,
Watt sewed strips of blankets together to craft a 10-by-13-inch _______________ in
2014, she arranged folded blankets into two large stacks and then cast them in bronze,
creating two curving 18-foot-tall blue-bronze pillars.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) sampler later,

B) sampler;
C) sampler,

D) sampler, later,

11. Gathering accurate data on water flow in the United States is challenging because of the
country's millions of miles of _______ the volume and speed of water at any given
location can vary drastically over time.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) waterways and the fact that,

B) waterways, and the fact that,

C) waterways, and, the fact that

D) waterways and the fact that

12. Joshua Hinson, director of the language revitalization program of the Chickasaw Nation
in Oklahoma, helped produce the world's first Indigenous-language instructional app,
Chickasaw _____________ Chickasaw TV, in 2010; and a Rosetta Stone language course
in Chickasaw, in 2015.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A) Basic; in 2009, an online television network;

B) Basic; in 2009, an online television network,

C) Basic, in 2009; an online television network,

D) Basic, in 2009, an online television network,

13.Lucia Michel of the University of Chile observed that alkaline soils contain an insoluble
form of iron that blueberry plants cannot absorb, thus inhibiting blueberry growth. If these
plants were grown in alkaline soil alongside grasses that aid in iron solubilization,
___________ Michel was determined to find out.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) could the blueberries thrive.
B) the blueberries could thrive.
C) the blueberries could thrive?
D) could the blueberries thrive?