Punctuating Adjectivals

Identify the participial phrases (underline) and relative clauses (italicize) in the following sentences and punctuate them accordingly.

Many coal miners who work in West Virginia refused to approve two sections of the contract offered by management. They maintain that the sections covering wages and safety represent no improvements over their present contract which expires on Friday night.

The senator and her husband who was sitting next to her on the speaker’s platform both looked calm as they waited for the mayor to finish the introduction. Then the mayor turning to look directly at the senator shocked both the audience and the senators on the platform.

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