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Directions. AFTER you have read the RULES for other uses of commas AND completed Exercises 7 and 8, work with your partner to check each sentence. If you do not get the correct answer for a sentence, go back and REREAD the RULES to understand how to get the correct answer. Other Uses of Commas.
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Directions • AFTER you have read the RULES for other uses of commas AND completed Exercises 7 and 8, work with your partner to check each sentence. If you do not get the correct answer for a sentence, go back and REREAD the RULES to understand how to get the correct answer.
Exercise 7 • 1. Do you know, Todd, what Chico Mendes did for Brazil’s rain forest?
Exercise 7 • 2. He proposed that land be set aside by the government for the rubber tapper’s use, I believe.
Exercise 7 • 3. Originally, rubber tappers, inhabitants of the rain forest for generations, were being forced to leave their homes.
Exercise 7 • 4. In my opinion, Chico Mendes is a hero in the fight to preserve the rain forest.
Exercise 7 • 5. Maria, do you agree in my opinion?
Exercise 7 • 6. Rubber trees, the source of income for rubber tappers, were being cut down as land was cleared.
Exercise 7 • 7. Chico Mendes, of course, did not sit quietly while this clearing was happening.
Exercise 7 • 8. Over a period of years, he organized more than forty peaceful blockades, lines of hundreds of people, to stop the bulldozers from clearing the forest.
Exercise 7 • 9. He asked the government to protect areas of the forest so that people who lived there could continue to collect latex, the juice of the rubber tree.
Exercise 7 • 10. He must have saved thousands of acres of rain forest, I suppose.