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.​

Read the following sentence and scan for errors

​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.

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!