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Title: Additional commas uses and misuses, Colons and dashes, Question marks

Grade: core-sat Lesson: S14-P1

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Step	Type	Explanation	Answer
1	Problem	The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating, several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union.
2	Clue	Punctuations help end, pause, and emphasize certain sentence parts.
3	Hint	A comma separates a phrase and clause in a sentence.
4	Sumup	Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?
5	Choice.A	The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating, several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union. The sentence is incorrect due to the unnecessary comma after "negotiating." It disrupts the flow of the sentence and creates a comma splice.	No change
6	Choice.B	The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating. several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union. The sentence is grammatically incorrect due to the unnecessary period after "negotiating" It should be corrected to form a meaningful sentence.	negotiating. several
7	Choice.C	The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union. The sentence is correct because it uses commas to separate items in a list ("the UK, Canada, and European Union") and correctly places a comma after "countries" to set off the list.	negotiating several
8	Choice.D	The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating: several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union. The colon after "negotiating" is incorrect. A colon should introduce a list only after a complete sentence.	negotiating: several
9	Step:	Correct sentence	The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union.
10	Answer	Option	C
11	Sumup	Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

Step

Type

Explanation

Answer

Problem

The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating, several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union.

Clue

Punctuations help end, pause, and emphasize certain sentence parts.

Hint

A comma separates a phrase and clause in a sentence.

Sumup

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

Choice.A

The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating, several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union.

The sentence is incorrect due to the unnecessary comma after "negotiating." It disrupts the flow of the sentence and creates a comma splice.

No change

Choice.B

The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating. several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union.

The sentence is grammatically incorrect due to the unnecessary period after "negotiating" It should be corrected to form a meaningful sentence.

negotiating. several

Choice.C

The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union.

The sentence is correct because it uses commas to separate items in a list ("the UK, Canada, and European Union") and correctly places a comma after "countries" to set off the list.

negotiating several

Choice.D

The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating: several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union.

The colon after "negotiating" is incorrect. A colon should introduce a list only after a complete sentence.

negotiating: several

Step:

Correct sentence

The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating several FTAs with countries, including the UK, Canada, and European Union.

Answer

Option

Sumup

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

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