Grammar Assignment 5/8

Correct the following run-ons or fragments. Please be sure your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are correct.

1.   No native people on Antarctica.

2.  Because it is too cold.

3. Although scientists and other workers live in Antarctica for about a year at a time.

4. These people there to study many things.

5. Ninety-five percent of Antarctica covered with ice.

6. Antarctica approximately 70 percent of the world’s fresh water in its ice.

7. A desert an area that gets very little precipitation.

8. Antarctica receives only two inches of rain each year.

9. Also has very high winds.

10. Brown bears include the grizzly and the kodiak, the largest brown bear is the kodiak.

11. Kodiak bears weigh as much as 1,700 pounds, they grow to a height of ten feet.

12. Females give birth to as many as four cubs, the cubs stay with their mother two

or three years.

13.  Many people are afraid of bears, encounters with bears are actually infrequent.

14.  Grizzly bears are solitary animals, they do not want to interact with people.

15. Generally, bears attack only when they are surprised, or when they are protecting

their young.

16.  People should always store food and garbage properly, bears could be attracted by

the smell.

17.  Never try to outrun a bear, it can run more than 30 miles per hour.

Sentences from: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Writing Effective Sentences