Sentence Problems

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 1. By the time Julia Roberts was 23, she had won two academy award actress. nominations, she had also become the world's most popular female actress.

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• e. correct

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 2. Since then, Roberts has appeared in fourteen films. Most recently, "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "The Conspiracy Theory."

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• d. choppy

• e. correct

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 3. She didn't plan to become an actress. She wanted to be six feet tall. She wanted to be a veterinarian. She wanted to be happy and make others happy.

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• e. correct

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 4. Although Julia Roberts has had much professional success. Her personal life has been troubled with several failed relationships.

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• e. correct

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 5. Julia Roberts lives in Manhattan, not far from the apartment she once shared with her sister in Greenwich Village.

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• e. correct

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 6. She came to New York when she was seventeen. Because her older sister lived there and she was influenced by her sister.

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• d. choppy

• e. correct

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 7. Roberts was raised in Georgia. Her parents ran a theater school there. Her sister and brother are also actors. The family was always short of money.

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• e. correct

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 8. When Julia was four years old, her parents divorced. After eighteen years of marriage.

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• e. correct

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 9. Julia and her sister lived with their mother. Their brother stayed their father. Who died of cancer five years later.

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• c. comma splice

• d. choppy

• e. correct

EXERCISE 1: Identify sentence problems in each of the following by choosing the best answer.

1. 10. In high school, Julia found classwork boring, she didn't know how to be a good student.

• a. fragment

• b. run on

• c. comma splice

• d. choppy

• e. correct