Run-on Sentences: Flashcards
A. He was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge: a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!
B. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chilled him.
C. He carried his own low temperature always about with him, he iced his office in the dogdays, and he didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.
D. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed noise, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait, and made his eyes red.
B. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chilled him.
A. His purple folder coordinates perfectly with his purple shoelaces.
B. Please do not try to distract me with talk of vacations and chocolate cake.
C. Her dog bears a striking resemblance to a red fox.
D. The cake was in the fridge Kelly ate a slice.
D. The cake was in the fridge Kelly ate a slice.
A. Marcy rides a bicycle with only one pedal, which is rather odd.
B. Why do you insist upon striking a chord on the harp every time I begin to sing?
C. He tried to stage a strike at the cereal factory it didn’t last through breakfast.
D. After much deliberation, Paul decided that his itchy head is the result of bad shampoo.
C. He tried to stage a strike at the cereal factory it didn’t last through breakfast.
A. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residual you legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner.
B. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot.
C. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley.
D. Sometimes, people new to the business called Scrooge “Scrooge,” and sometimes “Marley,” but he answered to both names it was all the same to him.
D. Sometimes, people new to the business called Scrooge “Scrooge,” and sometimes “Marley,” but he answered to both names it was all the same to him.
