Grade 9 -Sentence Errors

Open Ended

What English problem/s do you have? Give at least one.

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​Analyze whether the item is a sentence or a fragment.

Multiple Choice

Because the health worker left his tools

• sentence

• fragment

Multiple Choice

Which type of vaccine is the most effective against the coronavirus 

• sentence

• fragment

Multiple Choice

Aware of the various types of infections

• sentence

• fragment

Multiple Choice

The nurses are coming to the vaccination site today 

• sentence

• fragment

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​Edit the following run-on sentences.

Open Ended

The alarm clock blared out Eric leaped out of his bed

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​ANSWER:

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The alarm clock blared out so Eric leaped out of his bed.

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To boost our immunity nutritionists encourage us to eat more fresh produces

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​ANSWER:

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To boost our immunity, nutritionists encourage us to eat more fresh produces.

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Despite being at home we need thirty minutes of exercise to prevent muscle atrophy

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​ANSWER:

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Despite being at home, we need thirty minutes of exercise to prevent muscle atrophy.

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​Type out the double negatives in each sentence.

Open Ended

Henry hadn’t never been out of his house for more than a year.

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I haven’t not experienced cultivating plants before.

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Health workers scarcely never receive enough compensation, hence their salary needs  to be raised.

Open Ended

Some people not hardly able to travel back to their home province during ECQ.

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​Identify the unnecessary word/s to avoid wordiness in each of the following sentences.

Multiple Choice

The mango trees outside our house are huge in size

• The mango trees

• outside our house

• is huge

• in size

Multiple Choice

Now at this moment, Andrew is at home doing his FTC tasks.

• Now

• at this moment

• Andrew is at home

• doing his FTC tasks

Multiple Choice

I think smoking in public places should be banned

• I think

• smoking in 

• public places

• should be banned

Multiple Choice

Because of the fact that he got a good grade on the quiz, he decided to take the night off.

• Because

• of the fact that

• he got a good grade

• on the quiz

Open Ended

Address a note to yourself on how you can improve your grammar skills.