10 points to whoever checks punctuation errors for this? (continued)?
20. John Buse, the president of our class, asked me to sell tickets for the benefit concert.
21. Mr Stanton, will you please give me a reference?
22. Ouch! Watch where you’re going!
23. Hoping to meet Oprah Winfrey, we got tickets to a taping of her show.
24. My niece, P.J., will celebrate her twenty-first birthday tomorrow. ( I was confused with this, because, the abbreviated name leads to 2 puncuation marks: A period followed after a comma. Could this be right?
25. Mom or Dad or Uncle Paul will cook dinner tonight.
Favorite Answer
24. The period followed by a comma is correct.
25. Good as is. No commas necessary. But the sentence would read better if it were “Mom, dad, or Uncle Paul will cook dinner tonight.” The sentence has too many OR’s
PJ doesn’t need periods after each letter because part of the nickname but the periods aren’t. Yes, the comma there is correct.
25 You would leave out the first “or” and put a comma.
All the rest are fine. Good luck.
whoops- I didn’t catch that there was no period after Mr.
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