11-7-22

​11-7-22

Grammar Review ​

Read the following sentence and look for the errors.

​You don't need to do correction codes this week :)

​Just look for the errors and select the multiple choice.

​The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

Multiple Choice

The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

Correct the pocessive in the first part of the sentence

• The horses'

• The horseses

• The horse's

• The Horses'

Multiple Choice

The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

What's up with the word "tale"?

• Tale should be tail

• Tale should be taol

• Tale should be tayle

• Tale is the correct form

Multiple Choice

The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

What's up with the word "tale"?

• Tale should be tail

• Tale should be taol

• Tale should be tayle

• Tale is the correct form

Multiple Choice

The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

Is whipt spelled correctly?

• Yes, it's spelled correctly

• No, it's not spelled correctly

Multiple Choice

The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

What verb isn't in the correct tense?

• Whipped

• Endures

• Used

• All are correct

Multiple Choice

Thinking about the verb from the previous slide, what should the sentence read so that all the verbs are in the same tense?

• The horse's tail whipped wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

• The horse's tail whipped wildly as it enduring the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

• The horse's tail whipped wildly as it endured the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

• The horse's tail whipped wildly as it was enduring the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

Multiple Choice

The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

Which words should be hyphenated?

• Horse's-tail

• whipped-wildly

• long-pencil-sized

• pencil-sized

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of hyphenating words?

• making things sound better

• combining two adjectives into one

• combining two nouns or a noun and a verb into one word.

Multiple Choice

The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

What word is an abbreviation of a longer word?

• Dr.

• vaccinations

• it

• pencil-sized

Multiple Choice

What does Dr. stand for?

• Veterinarian

• Doctor

• Docteur

• Dentist

Multiple Choice

Select the correctly punctuated and spelled sentence.

The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

• The horses' taile whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil-sized needle that Dr. Lopez used for vaccinations.

• The horses tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr. Lopez used for vaccinations.

• The horses' tale whipped, wildly as it endured the long penci- sized needle that Dr. Lopez used for vaccinations.

• The horse's tail whipped wildly as it endured the long pencil-sized needle that Dr. Lopez used for vaccinations.

• The horse;s tale whipped wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.