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Sentence Practice 1

Source material: "There were 97 million hogs raised in America last year, and George Siemon of Organic Valley, the farmer-owned cooperative that markets Frantzen's pigs, guesses that organic herds accounted for 'much less than 1 percent' of that." (Jerry Adler, "A Tale of Two Hogs," Newsweek, September 30, 2002, pp. 56-58; the quoted material comes from p. 57)

1 .       Less than one percent of the hogs raised in America last year came from organic herds. 

 
 
2 .       According to one source, there were 97 million hogs raised in America last year. 

 
 
3 .       According to one source, there were 97 million hogs raised in American last year (57). 

 
 
4 .       George Siemon of Organic Valley, a farmer-owned cooperative, guesses that organic herds accounted for 'much less than 1 percent' of the 97 million hogs raised in America last year (Adler 57). 

 
 
5 .       George Siemon of Organic Valley, a farmer-owned cooperative, "guesses that organic herds accounted for 'much less than 1 percent'" of the 97 million hogs raised in America last year (Adler 57). 

 
 





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