Extra Credit Assignment 2

1. Defeated in the House, the Senate now gets to debate the bill.

2. Last night at 9 p.m. the 19-year-old got a ticket for jaywalking.

3. Meredith was so angry that night, she ran away from home.

4. Yes, Brittney, I can figure this one out.

5. Holding their flags high the veterans marched through town.

6. The students said they would "skip class" if Brittney made them do more exercises that had to do with grammar, punctuation, spelling, or style.

7. I think most students in this class are a part of the class of '09.

8. "I wonder if this is how you punctuate this quote?" Brittney said.

9. It's important for journalists be grammatically correct at all times for a few reasons. First of all, good grammar is the basis for good writing. If you want to be a writer, grammar is something you have to master in order to progress stylistically. If you're misspelling words, your readers won't take your content seriously and you lose a lot of credibility. Plus, you don't want readers to be distracted by bad grammar and not pay attention to the story they're reading.