SUR 15. Photographs reveal active volcanoes on the moons of Jupiter
and Neptune and extinct volcanoes on Vents and Mars
Exercise 2 Underline each main clause. Add a comma or a semicolon as needed.
Peter has a great interest in volcanoes he hopes to become a volcanologist.
1. Volcanologists study volcanoes.
2. They had always hunted an active eruption and in 1980 they got their chance.
3. Mount Saint Helens is an active volcano in Washington but it had not erupted since
1847
4. In March of 1980, Mount Saint Helens began shaking moreover, its top began to bulge.
5. Scientists raced to Washington from around the world.
6. They knew the mountain would erupt but they could not tell when or how violently.
7. Officials kept people away from the mountain but some adventurous souls went anyway.
8. Mount Saint Helens erupted early on May 18, 1980 and more than sixty people were
killed
9. The destruction to the earth and wildlife was extreme the blast leveled 150 square
miles of forest.
10. The avalanche after the blast killed millions of animals and birds.

Which excerpt from the war of the worldseffectively reveals how the author relates the climax of the narrative through the narrator's thoughts? the war of the worldsall this had happened with such swiftness that i had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. but it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar. and then, with a renewed horror, i saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. it was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. at that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the thing had come from the planet mars, but i judged it improbable that it contained any living creature. i thought the unscrewing might be automatic. my mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. yet it was a little too large for assurance on this idea. i felt an impatience to see it opened.