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Jessica's Buffalos: Working with Subordinating and Coordinating Conjunctions
 

The following paragraph about the reality television star Jessica Simpson offers practice in choosing appropriate coordinating or subordinating conjunctions.

 

Gap-fill Exercise Instructions: Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue.Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

 

Jessica Simpson is a bit lacking in the common sense department, her move into reality television was a smart move. of her well documented life on MTV, she is now well known for her ditsy comments, and even has a commercial for Domino's pizza making fun of her confusion over buffalo wings. In the commercial, she pokes fun at herself and tells her friends that she now knows that buffalos do not really have wings suddenly a herd of buffalos flapping their wings magically appear. The commercial is silly, she is making a profit by exploiting her equally silly comments. Also because of her reality show fame, she and her husband will be starring in a new variety show which looks as though it will not have quite the fan base as "The Newlyweds," but then again, who knew MTV would have such a hit when her show first aired? One can safely say that Jessica is financially set, she owes it all to impulsively speaking before she thinks.