COMM1106: Language Development: Punctuation Name: Student # Run-On Sentences and Lack of Appropriate Punctuation The following passage contains several run-on sentences and either inappropriate or lack of punctuation altogether. There are 10 run-on sentences; insert/delete punctuation where necessary and/or combine or reduce sentences to eliminate them. This exercise is meant to gouge your knowledge and application of appropriate punctuation for effective written communications. A friend of mine recently became a Canadian citizen, when she told me about her citizenship meeting, I couldn't bring myself to offer the congratulations she expected. Before her meeting. she was given a small book containing basic facts about Canada, she was told that the judge who interviewed her would question her on the information in that book, she didn't study the book, she never even opened it. At the meeting, the judge asked her a few simple questions, such as the name of the governor general, some advantages of being a Canadian citizen, and whether healthcare was a federal or a provincial responsibility. But since she couldn't answer any of these questions, my friend just shrugged and waited for the judge to give her the answers, she expected to be told to come back when she had learned more about her new country, she was surprised when the judge congratulated her for successfully completing the interview and set a date for her to return to receive her citizenship. I find the judge's decision disturbing for several reasons first, my friend's refusal to read the book suggests she doesn't have much respect for Canadian citizenship, second, her low opinion of our country's citizenship process was confirmed when the judge approved her application. Third, I suspect she passed because she is an attractive blonde teacher who speaks with a British accent, if she had been a man or a woman of colour, or spoke little to no English, I can't help but think her application would have been rejected, it deserved to be