Learn some fascinating facts about footwear as you practice correcting run-on sentences.
Directions: Each fact below contains at least one run-on sentence. Fix them by adding a period or a question mark and capitalizing the first letter of the new sentence where needed.
1. Want your favorite pair of kicks to get bigger shoe experts suggest stretching them by placing large peeled potatoes inside.
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2. Dorothy’s ruby slippers from the movie The Wizard of Oz are the second most popular item in the National Museum of American History millions of people go to see the sparkly shoes in Washington, D.C., every year.
3. The world’s oldest pair of shoes were discovered in Oregon in 1938 they’re over 10,000 years old and made of grass and bark.
4. A woman was offered $100,000 for a pair of worn shoes that LeBron James gave her after a game she decided to keep them.
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5. These silly-looking shoes, called chopines, are from Venice, Italy, in the 1700s very tall ones showed a lady was very wealthy some were 20 inches high!
6. College students in England calculated that for Cinderella to run in her glass slippers, the heels would’ve needed to be less than half an inch tall anything taller would have shattered.
7. Abebe Bikila, who won gold in the 1960 Olympic marathon, is famous for more than just speed he won wearing no shoes at all!
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8. Nike creator Bill Bowerman invented his world-famous sneakers while eating breakfast his waffles inspired him to create a waffle-like pattern for the bottoms of the shoes.
This article was originally published in the February 2020 issue.
