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Exercise and reference answers
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- Form the possessive singular with 's
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- Enclose parenthetic expressions in commas
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- Do not join independent clauses by a comma
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- Use the active voice
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- Omit needless words
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- Make the paragraph the unit of composition
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Explanation
Strunk separates the two, and so do exam questions. Source: The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. (1918), public domain.