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Exercise 9: Parenthetical Commas

Exercise 9: Parenthetical Commas

The sentences in this exercise are taken from R. Waterfield's translation of Plutarch's Life of Themistocles (Oxford 1998).

Questions: 25 | Attempts: 228 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question 1
As soon as Themistocles had taken up the command, which he had been given, he set about getting his fellow citizens to board their triremes.

Delete comma after "command"

Delete comma after "given"

Correct as is

Delete both commas

Sample Question 2
He tried to persuade them to abandon their city, Athens, and meet the Persians at sea as far away as possible from Greece.

Correct as is

Delete comma after "city"

Delete comma after "Athens"

Delete both commas

Sample Question 3
These ideas met with a great deal of opposition, however, so he joined forces with the Lacedaemonians and led a sizeable army into the field at Tempe, where they intended to meet the invasion and defend Thessaly, because at that time it was not yet known that Thessaly was collaborating with the enemy.

Correct as is

Delete comma after "Tempe"

Delete comma after "Thessaly"

Delete commas after "Tempe" and "Thessaly"

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