Question

Which of the following sentence correctly follow the rules of punctuation?
A. The peach’s are ready for harvest.
B. The peaches’ are ready for harvest.
C. My son’s peaches are ready for harvest.
D. My sons’s peaches's are ready for harvest

Extending her arms over the left-field wall, the baseball plummeted toward the fan, and she caught it cleanly on the fly before displaying the home run ball for all to see.
Which of the following phrases is misplaced in the sentence above?
A. Extending her arms over the left-field wall
B. toward the fan
C. on the fly
D. before displaying the home run ball for all to see

Which of the following options best demonstrates sentence fluency?
A. The city looked beautiful in that it was lit by the sun which I was walking down the street.
B. Walking down the street in the sunshine, the city looked beautiful.
C. The city looked beautiful as I was walking, lit by the sun, down the street.
D. Walking down the street, I noticed how beautiful the city looked in the sunshine.

Answer 1

Which of the following sentence correctly follow the rules of punctuation?

A. The peach’s are ready for harvest. – the word peache’s is incorrect as it’s a plural word, an apostrophe is inappropriate.

B. The peaches’ are ready for harvest. – the word peaches’ is incorrect as it’s a plural word, an apostrophe is inappropriate.

C. My son’s peaches are ready for harvest. – This is correct with son being singular and peaches being plural.

D. My sons’s peaches's are ready for harvest – the words peache’s is incorrect as it’s a plural word, an apostrophe is inappropriate.

Extending her arms over the left-field wall, the baseball plummeted toward the fan, and she caught it cleanly on the fly before displaying the home run ball for all to see.

Which of the following phrases is misplaced in the sentence above?

A. Extending her arms over the left-field wall – this is inappropriate as it steal the meaning of the sentence or diverts the direction from the main sentence.

B. toward the fan – the sentence structure and meaning are appropriate.

C. on the fly – the sentence structure and meaning are appropriate.

D. before displaying the home run ball for all to see – the sentence structure and meaning are appropriate.

Which of the following options best demonstrates sentence fluency?

A. The city looked beautiful in that it was lit by the sun which I was walking down the street. - as it does not help speaking or writing in an articulate and natural manner or (of a language) used easily and accurately.

B. Walking down the street in the sunshine, the city looked beautiful - as it helps speaking or writing in an articulate and natural manner and (of a language) used easily and accurately.

C. The city looked beautiful as I was walking, lit by the sun, down the street - as it helps speaking or writing in an articulate and natural manner and (of a language) used easily and accurately.

D. Walking down the street, I noticed how beautiful the city looked in the sunshine. - as it helps speaking or writing in an articulate and natural manner and (of a language) used easily and accurately.