Restrictive-Nonrestrictive Exercises

Add or delete commas where necessary in the following sentences. If a sentence is correct, write correct after it.

1. Choreographer Alvin Aileys best-known work Revelations is more than just a crowd-pleaser.

2. Twyla Tharps contemporary ballet Push Comes to Shove was made famous by the Russian dancer Baryshnikov. [Tharp has written more than one contemporary ballet.]

3. The glass sculptor sifting through hot red sand explained her technique to the other glassmakers. [There is more than one glass sculptor.]

4. A member of an organization, that provides job training for teens, was also appointed to the education commission.

5. Brian Eno who began his career as a rock musician turned to meditative compositions in the late 1970s.

6. I had the pleasure of talking to a woman who had just returned from India where she had lived for ten years.

7. Patricks oldest sister Fiona graduated from MIT with a degree in aerospace engineering.

8. The artist painting a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese civil rights leader, was once a political prisoner himself.

9. Jumanji, the 1982 Caldecott Medal winner, is my nephews favorite book.

10. The flame crawled up a few blades of grass to reach a low-hanging palmetto branch which quickly ignited.