Each of the following sentences contains one or more main clauses. On your paper, write the subject and the verb of each main clause.
Can the Panther Survive? By the early 1990s, the population of panthers had declined to about fifty, and the big cat’s extinction seemed likely.

Rewrite the sentences below, correcting errors in the punctuation of essential and nonessential adjective clauses.
What’s in a Name? The Illinois name, that meant “those with dugout canoes,” became Missouri.

Read through the sentences quickly to get an idea of the scene, and then rewrite each sentence, making the words in italics into an absolute phrase. Add commas where needed.
When the world’s deserts were turned into farmland, every family was guaranteed adequate food.

Contesta.

En una forma democrática de gobierno¿qué derecho tiene el pueblo?

On your paper, write the adjective clause in each of the following sentences. Then write the word that the clause modifies. (In one sentence, the relative pronoun has been dropped.)
Margaret Bourke-White, Photojournalist The factory was a place where few had found artistic inspiration, but Bourke-White pho- tographed machines as powerful, beautiful objects.

Write on your paper the absolute phrase in each of the following sentences.
The weary hikers rested for a minute by the camp, their breaths frosty white in the cold, crisp winter air.

Rewrite the sentences below, correcting errors in the punctuation of essential and nonessential adjective clauses.
What’s in a Name? For example, Illinois is a French version of an Algonquian name, that meant “men.”

Rewrite the sentences below, correcting errors in the punctuation of essential and nonessential adjective clauses.
What’s in a Name? The Seneca word, that means “beautiful river,” is the root of the name Ohio.

Write on your paper the absolute phrase in each of the following sentences.
All things considered, the four main actors were pleased by the reviews in the early- morning newspapers.

Read through the sentences quickly to get an idea of the scene, and then rewrite each sentence, making the words in italics into an absolute phrase. Add commas where needed.
Because the environment had been polluted for decades, nations agreed on measures to clean up toxic waste.

Read through the sentences quickly to get an idea of the scene, and then rewrite each sentence, making the words in italics into an absolute phrase. Add commas where needed.
Doctors put great effort into research because disease was a global concern.

Contesta.

¿Qué es el presidente de los Estados Unidos?

Rewrite the sentences below, correcting errors in the punctuation of essential and nonessential adjective clauses.
What’s in a Name? The Native American words, that give many of our states their names, come from a vari- ety of languages

Each of the following sentences contains one or more main clauses. On your paper, write the subject and the verb of each main clause.
Can the Panther Survive? The captive breeding program is probably the best hope for saving this endangered species.