Correcting Faulty Coordination

Correcting Faulty Coordination

by PAZ RIVAS

​Correcting Faulty Coordination Exercise: Correct the faulty coordination of each sentence using one of the three methods given.

​Example: I made the dessert, and it was an apple pie.

Answer: I made dessert, an apple pie.

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1. Clark Gable was one of America’s most popular actors, and he starred in Gone with the Wind.

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2. I jogged to the park, and crowds filled the lawns.

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3. The lava flows stretch many miles in Hawaii, and they cut a swath through the otherwise dense vegetation.

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4. Someone built a miniature replica of the White House, and it has lights and a television that actually work.

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5. The suitcases were packed, and we set off on vacation.

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6. The alarm woke me up this morning, and it was still dark.

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7. Jill was looking for a job, and she had been fired last week.

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8. The clerk rang up my purchase, but she did it incorrectly, and I asked her to re-total it, and she did, but she made another mistake, and the manager finally fixed it.

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9. Star Wars was Tom’s favorite movie, and he saw it eighteen times.

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10. The plane took of fifteen minutes behind schedule, and it arrived at its next stop on time.