<em>Interesting question. Here are the revised sentences, complete with commas (when they are needed).</em>
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<em>After I finished the Chicago Marathon, my legs were tired.</em>
<em>Muhammed Ali was the greatest athlete ever.</em>
<em>My mom told me to clean my room, wash the dishes, and take out the garbage.</em>
<em>I want to listen to my iPod in class, but my teacher won't let me.</em>
<em>If I had the chance, I would change our mascot to a gorilla.</em>
<em>No, I don't want to go to Taco Bell for lunch.</em>
<em>The fireworks were fun to watch.</em>
<em>Marcus Brutus, who was tricked by Cassius, was the last conspirator to stab Caesar.</em>
<em>Antony, thinking the conspirators would kill him, fled after he saw Caesar's dead body.</em>
It is b. Two Es' make up his father's initials.
<span>First and foremost, you might speak with your librarian. Even if they don’t know the book in question, they will be of great assistance in helping you find it in the library stacks by narrowing down where books on the subject of hot air ballooning might be. If they can not personally assist you, you can take advantage of the library’s computer system to help you track down the book you are looking for. If that fails, you can use the library computers to do a search for books on hot air ballooning. This will give you some names and titles, which you will then be able to do a more targeted search for within the library’s own system and find the book you are looking for.</span>
I'm pretty sure it's "the baby cried" because an independent clause can stand alone and that can stand alone.
