Revise Run-on Sentences English 12 English 10 Honors September 12, 2012 ! Directions: Copy the following run-on sentences below using the method given in parentheses. (1) In 1818, when she was twenty-one, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, "a masterpiece of horror,” the book book has been popular ever since. (Join with a coordinating conjunction.)

(2) The tale started as a parlor game, a group of friends sat by the fire telling ghost stories. (Join with a semicolon.)

(3) That night Mary had a vivid dream she imagined how a monster might be created by bringing a corpse back to life. (Join with a coordinating conjunction.) a (4) Many films center around Frankenstein's monster few of them deal with the book's serious themes. (Join with a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb)

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.