100 horrible sentence errors quiz (part 1)

After the rainstorm, Jeremy walked his dachshund on a sidewalk covered in wet leaves

• Subject Verb Agreement

• Correct

• Misplaced Modifier

• Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

Any one of Ms. Orsini's students know the rules that govern subject-verb agreement

• Correct

• Subject Verb Agreement

• Dangling Modifier

• Fused Sentence

As a result of Coach Moody’s demanding training, the team from Weaver High School inevitably outperforms their competition at every track meet

• Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

• Correct

• Comma splice

• Fused Sentence

As we slogged through Melville's book Moby-Dick, Professor Carson asked us to determine the motivation of each character on the boat and what archetype they best represents.

• Correct

• Fused Sentence

• Sentence Fragment

• Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

At the back of the classroom, Nina sat with her arms crossed, glaring at her teacher, Professor Beane, her body language indicated that English literature was her least favorite subject.

• Sentence fragment

• Comma Splice

• Misplaced Modifier

• Subject-Verb Agreement

At the campus coffee cart, Gini makes the best drinks her sweet cream latte, a blend of vanilla ice cream and espresso, will put on the pounds, but its cool, smooth taste is worth a trip to the gym.

• Fused Sentence

• Correct

• Subject-Verb Agreement

• Comma Splice

At the Halloween dance, the catering committee received many compliments for their squid eyeball stew

• Dangling Modifier

• Comma Splice

• Subject-Verb Agreement

• Pronoun-Antecedent Error

Some of my friends, who will stuff double meat into our burritos for free, works at Tito’s Taco Palace

• Misplaced Modifier

• Dangling Modifer

• Subject-Verb Agreement

• Correct

Because his glasses were so thick, Quincy refused to get contacts, he worried that equally thick contact lenses would make him look like a bug-eyed space alien.

• Fused sentence

• Misplaced modifier

• Comma Splice

• Sentence Fragment

Before my lecture on good nutrition, neither of my uncles know that chocolate-broccoli muffins were a good way to increase his intake of vitamin C.

• Pronoun-Antecedent agreement

• Subject-Verb Agreement

• Correct

• Fused Sentence