What injury did Kathryn suffer? a fractured elbow a torn tendon in her hip a torn ligament in her leg a broken hip 2What has cau
sed the increase in the number of young athletes suffering from overuse injuries? Young athletes are specializing in one sport. Young athletes are not doing enough stretching. Young athletes have a tendency to be more risky in their activities. Young athletes have a high threshold for pain. 3What advice do you think the author would give to a teenage athlete? Try your best to get a college athletic scholarship. Be sure to rest and pay attention to any pain you feel. In order to improve, do more of your sport/activity of choice. As long as the pain isn’t too bad, take Advil and see if it gets better. 4Read the following sentence: “Instead of playing baseball in the spring and basketball in the fall, young athletes are specializing in one sport.” In this sentence the word specializing means playing multiple sports in a year learning and studying a sport concentrating on one particular sport picking a strategy for learning a sport 5The primary purpose of this passage is to describe why more young athletes work hard to get college scholarships to point out that coaches don’t pay enough attention to their athletes’ injuries to argue for why there should be changes to high school athletics programs to describe the causes and effects of overuse injuries in young athletes 6What is an “overuse injury”? Answer 7Why do you think a young athlete might resist a prescription to rest or sit out from a few games? Answer 8The question below is an incomplete sentence. Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Many young athletes love playing sports, _______ they need to be careful not to overuse their muscles and joints. because but so after 9Which picture below most likely represents a fracture? 10If you wear a helmet or pads, would that increase or decrease the likelihood that you would fracture a bone while playing a sport?
The correct answer is A. This is the case of using comma before a coordinating conjunction <em>and</em> because it links two independent clauses. We can observe that there two parts of this full sentence and each part is independent from each other. Both of them have their own subject and verb. Therefore, we are using a comma before <em>and</em>.
