Week 9/Grammar Sentence Correction

GRAMMAR REVIEW
Grammar #9 ​

Read the following sentence and scan for errors

​tHERE ARE 6 total ERRORS in this sentence. Scan the sentence for errors

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My dependible car who has taken me over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.​

Read the following sentence and scan for errors

What's wrong with this word?

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My dependible car who has taken me over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.​

Fill in the Blanks

How should dependible be spelled?

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​What's wrong with this pronoun selection?

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My dependible car who has taken me over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.​

Multiple Choice

Who should be...

• that

• which

• it

• no change needed

Read the following sentence and scan for errors

Look at this clause here.... How should it be punctuated?

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My dependible car who has taken me over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.​

Multiple Choice

My dependable car who has taken me over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.

• My dependable car, which has taken me over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine

• My dependable car, which has taken me, over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.

• My dependable car, which has taken me over 120,000 miles, still has a smooth purring engine.

• My dependable car, which has taken me over 120,000 miles still, has a smooth purring engine.

There's an issue with the word "over"

What's a better way to phrase this?

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My dependible car who has taken me over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.​

Dropdown

My dependable car, which has taken me ​

Select answer

120,000 miles, still has a smooth purring engine.

Read the following sentence and scan for errors

Where should the comma go?

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My dependible car who has taken me over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.​

Multiple Choice

My dependable car, which has taken me, over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.

• My dependable car, which has taken me, over 120,000 miles still has a smooth, purring engine.

• My dependable car, which has taken me, over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring, engine.

• My dependable car, which has taken me, over 120,000 miles, still has a smooth purring engine.

• My dependable car, which has taken me, over 120,000 miles still has a, smooth purring, engine.

Fill in the Blanks

We should put a comma there because a comma needs to separate two ------ of similar type.

Read the following sentence and scan for errors.
Then select the answers which correct the sentence for spelling, grammar, and punctuation

​In The Scarlet Ibis a short story by James Hurst the character of Doodle is spiritually connected to a exotic bird the author does this to show the beuty of a fragile life.

Multiple Choice

How should The Scarlet Ibis be punctuated?

• "The Scarlet Ibis"

• The Scarlet Ibis

• The Scarlet Ibis

• None of these are correct

Multiple Choice

Why is "The Scarlet Ibis" punctuated like that?

• short stories are always underlined

• short stories are always in italics

• short stories are always in quotations

• novels are always in italics

Multiple Choice

How should this part of the sentence be punctuated?

In The Scarlet Ibis a short story by James Hurst the character of Doodle is spiritually connected to a exotic bird

• In "The Scarlet Ibis" a short story by James Hurst the character of Doodle is spiritually connected to a exotic bird

• In "The Scarlet Ibis," a short story by James Hurst, the character of Doodle is spiritually connected to an exotic bird.

• In The Scarlet Ibis, a short story by James Hurst, the character of Doodle is spiritually connected to a exotic bird.

• In "The Scarlet Ibis", a short story by James Hurst, the character of Doodle is spiritually connected to a exotic bird.

Multiple Choice

In "The Scarlet Ibis," a short story by James Hurst, the character of Doodle is spiritually connected to an exotic bird.

What type of sentence is this?

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Multiple Choice

Why do you put commas around the phrase

, a short story by James Hurst,

• you would naturally pause ther e

• it's interrupting the flow of the sentence

• it's the renaming the title of the short story

• it's an appositive phrase, it renames the short story with another noun

Multiple Choice

What's the correct spelling of this word?

beuty

• beity

• beauty

• beeuty

• buty

Multiple Choice

What should this be changed to?

a exotic bird

• the exotic bird

• one exotic bird

• an exotic bird

• correct as is

Multiple Choice

Select the correct spelling of the word

fragile

• frigile

• fagile

• fraygile

• correct as is

Great job!