Name: ___________________________ Date: __________________

Supply the missing commas in each of the following sentences.

1. Before, most people were superstitious.
   
   
2. People now know that superstitions are silly, but many of these beliefs are still alive and well.
   
   
3. I know you believe, dear friend, that blowing out all the candles on your birthday cake will make your wish come true.
   
   
4. Do you knock on wood, say "bless you" when someone sneezes, and avoid opening your umbrella indoors?
   
   
5. When you knock on wood, you are calling upon the good spirits that live in trees to protect you.
   
   
6. Pope Gregory passed a law requiring people of the 6^th century to bless a sneezer, who had probably contracted the deadly plague.
   
   
7. If you break a mirror, you face seven years of bad luck.
   
   
8. The bird, which had flown into the house, was an omen of death.
   
   
9. Brides must wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
   
   
10. It is, however, bad luck for the groom to see his bride before the wedding.
    
    
11. "Don't step on a crack, or you'll break your mother's back."
    
    
12. You've heard, I'm sure, that pulling out a gray hair causes ten more to grow back.
    
    
13. The young girl, taking advantage of superstition, waited beneath the mistletoe for the object of her affection to happen by.
    
    
14. If you take a test with the same pencil you used when you studied, the pencil will remember the answers.
    
    
15. He carried at all times a rabbit's foot, a four-leaf clover, and a horseshoe.
    
    
16. Throw a coin into the fountain, and make a wish.
    
    
17. Edmund Burke said, "Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
    
    
18. But Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German novelist, said that "superstition is the poetry of life."
    
    
19. The wishbone, clean and dry, was ready to be pulled in two.
    
    
20. Don't harm a cricket or a ladybug, for they both bring good luck.