The Extra Bit

Brackets, dashes and commas around the bit you could lift out

Lesson 12
Spicy

Name

Date

Chef Polpetta

Open it, close it, match it. Two marks, the same kind, and a sentence that stands without the middle.

Tick the right one

aThe recipe, see page four) takes an hour.The recipe (see page four) takes an hour.marks

bOur café, tiny but famous, was packed.Our café (tiny but famous, was packed.marks

cRome, hot in August empties at lunchtime.Rome, hot in August, empties at lunchtime.marks

dThe pasta (freshly rolled was perfect).The pasta (freshly rolled) was perfect.marks

Find the 6 mistakes

Welcome back to Polpetta's café on Market Street. Our chef, the famous Polpetta makes every dish himself, and our waitress a local girl, carries four plates at once. The menu (three courses costs twelve pounds, and the bread, baked at dawn, is still warm at nine o'clock. Our café (open since May) is already famous across Rome. Our tiramisu, which sells out by noon is worth the queue, and the gelato – made with market lemons, never lasts the afternoon. The soup thick and green, is today's special.

Two extra bits are missing only their second comma, and one pair mixes a dash with a comma. Two pairs in here are already right, leave them be.

Write the corrections here

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The Extra Bit

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Name

Now you write

☆☆☆

a The same extra bit twice, once in brackets, once in dashes, and which you would print:

b A sentence where lifting out the marked bit would break it, and why:

c An extra bit inside an extra bit, if you dare:

Help Polpetta

Chef Polpetta

I mended my note: Our soup, made fresh daily) is the best in Rome. Two marks now, like you said.

Tell him why the marks still fail, and write him both correct versions, commas and brackets.

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