3.7, 3.8, 3.9 Exercises

Exercise 3.7

1. The 25-year-old man wept as he left Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
2. November 10 will mark our anniversary.
3. Park at 12 Davies St., not Rodeo Drive.
4. They spent $130 to buy nose rings.
5. Smoots moved to the North because the people there are nice.
6. The rodeo will begin at 7 p.m. in the town square
7. Terrorists blew up their home at 123 Melrose St.
8. Twenty-two seamstresses mended the prom dresses.
9. About 5 percent of the professors have lost their hair.
10. Jones decided to leave after 2 feet of snow fell at his Columbus, Ohio, home.
11. Smith bet $50 that her brother weighed more than a 1964 Chevrolet.
12. Gov. John Smith of California set his trailer on fire Sept. 1.
13. A fire began at 3325 McDonald Drive when an oven exploded.
14. Everyone wore bell-bottom blue jeans to church in the 1970s.

Exercise 3.8

1. In August 1985, Davies rented a rutabaga stand in Augusta, Georgia.
2. Pomerantz tied to the beehive to Sen. Gramm’s cowboy hat.
3. About 1200 rabbits were killed in the explosion at Big Dave’s Bunny Warehouse at 2525 Hackensack Drive.
4. In the 1980s, Davies left the Midwest and moved to the Loire Valley in France.
5. Smoots brought two cups of coffee to the governor.
6. About 8 percent of the cantaloupes have been stuffed with rutabagas.
7. Jones bet $40 that his roommate had hidden the sandwich.
8. The three university professors share a house at 613 25th Ave.
9. Davies decided to leave the Midwest and move to the South after 2 feet of snow fell at his Columbus, Ohio, home.
10. All classes will be canceled Dec. 11.
11. The mayor skipped her aerobics class Monday morning.
12. Davies drove 2 million miles in his Toyota Corolla before it blew up.
13. Dr. Kildare said he had filed a malpractice suit against Marcus Welby.
14. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas will give a short speech in front of the Gorgas library at 8 p.m.

Exercise 3.9

1. Estalene Smoots dropped her French class the first day of school.
2. Sadie Hoots won $3.2 million on Wheel of Fortune.
3. Frustrated that their professor required them to eat fried rutabagas, the students walked out of class at 9 a.m.
4. The office manager had 21 plants, 62 cats and two puppies.
5. President Aubrey Lucas is originally from Compton, California.
6. Ruth Ann Bobetski will turn 41 on Oct. 25.
7. Goober Hicks lives at 10 West Hardy Street. He used to live in a run down shack at 2803 Williamsburg Road.
8. Abby gave birth to a 9-pound baby boy.
9. The president invited me to dinner at the White House, but I could not fit it into my schedule.
10. Sen. Davies said his earnings had increased 10 percent in the 1980s.
11. Barney the Dinosaur will be executed on Tuesday, Nov. 2.
12. Twenty-five vagabonds attacked me from behind in front of the hub.
13. Miss Snarkle found a 10-inch bug crawling in her spaghetti. “Great! Now I won’t need seconds,” she exclaimed.
14. All the men in the ROTC chapter wore red, white and blue pantyhose to class in January 1991.
15. The Bay City baseball team lost their final game 2–1 and climbed dejectedly back onto their bus.