A Monty Python Comma Quiz
Test your comma IQ by adding commas to the following sentences. Do you know why you need a comma here or there?
1) According to Monty Python’s Flying Circus the Montgolfier brothers were the first balloonists.
2) Actually the first balloonist was a chap from Cheapside and he expired when his balloon collapsed over the Lady’s Auxillary Tea in Bennington.
3) Mrs. Mott not the apple heiress but a modest housewife from Hampstead cried “Oh my god he has broken my favorite teapot.”
4) Because the balloonist had broken Mrs. Mott’s favorite teapot the Lady Auxillary dragged his body to the nearest creek.
5) There under the cover of darkness they plunged the body in the creek and they watched it slowly float like a summer leaf bobbing up and down until it vanished.
6) The Ladies however salvaged tarp from the balloon and they sewed large tents 10 feet by 10 feet for their next tea.
7) At the next tea held in Hampstead the Ladies Auxillary erected these tents and they served jam muffins with clotted cream thick sticky buns chocolate éclairs and Cornish cookies.
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