Draw vertical lines to separate the sentence units, paying special attention to the various adverbials. Identify the verb category:
be,
linking, intransitive, or transitive.
Example: The Lincoln penny / first / appeared / in 1909. Verb: intransitive
1. Many people now consider the penny a nuisance coin.
2. Early Lincoln pennies are very valuable today.
3. During World War II the government required large amounts of copper for war production.
4. In 1943 zinc-coated steel replaced the copper in the production of pennies.
5. The Philadelphia Mint unwittingly produced twelve copper pennies that year in addition to the new model.
6. The copper blanks for those twelve pennies were still in the press hopper during the production of the zinc-coated coins.
7. Those twelve 1943 copper pennies soon became valuable collectors’ items.
8. Even after 100 years, the production of the Lincoln penny continues today.
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