Question

A Special Christmas Party Danielle Toomer (1) This year, my neighbor and friend, Holly and I will be deciding to have an special Christmas party. (2) We had always wanted to have a theme party, and we thought that having a theme party based on the comic film, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, would be fun. (3) We will plan out a menu based on the food eaten in the movie--even the gross cat-food filled jell-o! (4) On our invitation, we have encouraged guests to dress like different characters in the movie. (5) We thought about inviting only neighbors, but eventually we settled on inviting anybody, including work friends. (6) Organizing the party has taken a lot of work, time, energy, and money--but we are so excited to celebrate with all our friends wearing silly outfits and eating crazy food! How should sentence (1) be changed? A) Remove the comma after the word year B) Remove the comma after the word friend C) Change will be deciding to decide D) Change will be deciding to have decided

URGENT please help

Answer 1

Sentence (1) should be corrected by changing 'will be deciding' to 'decide', indicating that the decision about the Christmas party has already been made. Additionally, proper comma usage was corrected in the provided review questions.

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct way to change sentence (1) 'This year, my neighbor and friend, Holly and I will be deciding to have an special Christmas party.' would be C) Change will be deciding to decide. The action of deciding is already completed at the time of writing as the planning has proceeded, so the future continuous tense 'will be deciding' is not appropriate. The phrase should be shifted to the simple present tense 'decide' to reflect a decision that has already been made.

For the review questions on inserting or omitting commas:

• (1) I finally found my keys, and I got to work just in time. (Insert a comma before the conjunction)
• (2) Mrs. Contreras threw out her old coffee table and cleaned the carpet. (Remove the comma before the conjunction)
• (3) Taking the elevator to the roof, we hoped we could see the skyline and the bay. (Omit the comma before 'and')
• (4) Though Susan wasn't feeling well, she went to the store anyway and bought ice cream, pizza, and candy. (Omit the second comma)
• (5) I let my neighbor borrow my phone because she said hers was tapped by the police. (Omit the comma before 'because')

Answer 2

its D.

Step-by-step explanation:

"1) This year, my neighbor and friend, Holly and I will be deciding to have an special Christmas party"

when it should say" decided" "This year, my neighbor and friend, Holly and I will be decided to have an special Christmas party"