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1. At first when I handed it to her she was a little confused, but when she realized what it was she couldn’t stop saying “Thank You!”

~from the Literacy Narrative Essay

Explanation: Though it may not always be grammatically necessary, a comma can often help to prevent a misreading.  When a sentence opens with an introductory element, it is a great help to your reader to place a comma after that introductory element. 

2. I was confused and I didn’t know why she told me that (because): I thought it was the best book ever written.

~from the Literacy Narrative Essay

Explanation: In the sentence a colon would work better than the word because so the sentence flows better.

3. The boathouse looks like a huge open aired tiki house with two boats and two jet ski’s resting in the water.

~from the Profile Paper

Explanation: One common trip-up on apostrophe usage for a plural group occurs when people want to discuss what a family owns. For instance, say the Smart family lives across the street from you and owns a boat. The boat is "the Smarts' boat," not "the Smart's boat." Because you are talking about all of the members of the Smart family, you would start with "Smarts." Because all the Smarts (presumably) own the boat, you add the apostrophe after the "s."

4. The sign ‘Now Hiring’ on the door interested one particular girl; her name was Nicki.

~from the Literary Analysis Paper

Explanation: This sentence contains two or more independent clauses.  Separate the clauses with a period or semicolon. 

5. With all of the threats about closing the Strait of Hormuz Iran has “yet made no attempts to disrupt shipping through the waterway, the route for one-fifth of the worlds crude oil, and U.S. and allies have warned they would respond swiftly to any attempts at a blockade” said news media in the current worlds article.

~From the Global Issues Paper

Explanation: This is not cited correctly

6. By that we can infer that maybe her shop will be robbed again or maybe something worse will happen next time and there won’t be a person there to save her.

~from the Literary Analysis Paper

Explanation: Though it may not always be grammatically necessary, a comma can often help to prevent a misreading.  When a sentence opens with an introductory element, it is a great help to your reader to place a comma after that introductory element.