Exercise 1

Supply commas in the following sentences in the proper places:

1. Food clothes and shelter are the fundamental needs of life.

2. We believe in education free from theocracy aristocracy or

plutocracy.

3. Man is the master of nature of law of life.

4. We shall struggle rebel arise and claim all being for our own.

5. Sickness and suffering sorrow and despair crime and war are the

fruits of poverty.

6. You should seek after knowledge steadily faithfully and

perseveringly.

7. The most inspiring powerful and impressive oratory is the voice of

the disinherited.

8. Through your united almighty strength order shall become equity law

shall become liberty duty shall become love and religion shall

become truth.

9. First let us consider the main question.

10. Mr. President I rise to a point of order.

11. We the workers of the world must unite.

12. The class struggle being a fact why should we hesitate to join our

class?

13. You have not it seems understood the issue.

14. Of all our needs education is the greatest.

15. Regularly and monotonously the machine whirs to and fro.

16. Before any one can take special training he must have a good

knowledge of English.

17. We plead for education universal and free.

18. The first ingredient in conversation is truth the next good sense

the third good humor and the fourth wit.

19. The slogan of the People's College is The education of the workers

by the workers.

20. According to the last census the enrollment of the schools of the

United States is 18521002.

21. There are 4611000 in the first grade and 155000 in the last year

of high school.

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