Essentials of Business Communication 10th Edition by Dana Loewy,Mary Ellen Guffey

Exercise 12

Review the Grammar/Mechanics Handbook Sections 2.10-2.15 for Questions 1-5. For Questions 6-15, also review Sections 2.01-2.09. Then study each of the following statements and insert necessary commas. In the space provided, write the number of commas you added; write 0 if no commas are needed. Also record the number of the G/M principle(s) illustrated. When you finish, compare your responses with those provided at the end of the book. If your answers differ, study carefully the principles shown in parentheses.

______________________ 1. "Perpetual optimism" said Colin Powell "is a force multiplier."
______________________ 2. The featured speakers are Laura Dendringer PhD and Pam Rankey MBA.
______________________ 3. We interviewed JoyLynn Reed on June 2 didn't we?
______________________ 4. Research shows that talking on a cell phone distracts drivers and quadruples their chances of getting into accidents such as rear-ending a car ahead of them.
______________________ 5. The bigger the monitor the clearer the picture.
Review Commas 1, 2, 3
______________________ 6. As you may know information chips are already encoded in the visas of people who need them for work travel or study in this country.
______________________ 7. We think however that the new passports will be issued only to diplomats and other government employees beginning in August.
______________________ 8. To fill the vacant position we hope to hire Kimberly Creek-Lea who is currently working in Palm Beach Gardens.
______________________ 9. All things considered our conference will attract more participants if it is held in a resort setting such as Las Vegas Scottsdale or Orlando.
______________________ 10. If you examine the log closely you will see that we shipped 15 orders on Thursday; on Friday only 4.
______________________ 11. In the past ten years we have promoted over 30 well-qualified individuals many of whom started in accounting.
______________________ 12. Paul Miller who spoke to our class last week is the author of a book titled The Digital Workplace.
______________________ 13. A widely discussed study of productivity that was conducted by authoritative researchers revealed that workers in the United States are more productive than workers in Europe or Japan.
______________________ 14. America's secret productivity weapons according to the report were not bigger companies more robots or even brainier managers.
______________________ 15. As a matter of fact the report said that America's productivity resulted from a capitalistic system of unprotected hands-off competition.