EXERCISE 8. Punctuatlng wCh commas and periods. (Charts 8-1 - 8-3)
Directions: Add commas, periods, and capital letters as necessary.
- African elephants are larger than Asiatic elephants. E Cephants native to Asia are
easier to train and have gentler natures than African elephants.
- Asiatic elephants are native to the jungles and forests in India Indonesia Malaysia
Thailand India China and other counmes in southeastern and southern Asia.
- Elephants spend a lot of time in water and are good swimmers they take baths in rivers
and lakes they like to give themselves showers by shooting water from their trunks.
- After a bath, they often cover themselves with dirt the dirt protects their skin from the
sun and insects.
- A female elephant is pregnant for approximately twenty months and almost always has
only one baby a young elephant stays close to its mother for the first ten years of its
life.
- iw 6. Elephants live peacefully together in herds but some elephants (called rogues) leave the
herd and become mean these elephants usually are in pain from decayed teeth a
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disease or a wound. *
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