WorksheetsSentence Errors- Emma Wheatley
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Baking in the oven, I watched the cupcakes.
Misplaced Modifier
Unclear Pronoun Placement
Fragment
Fused Run-On
The cupcakes tasted very good, however, they didn’t look appetizing.
Change this into two sentences
Get rid of the comma after good
Add a semicolon after good
Get rid of the comma after however
The girls is baking their cupcakes today.
The girl are baking their cupcakes today.
The girls did baking their cupcakes today.
The girls is bake their cupcakes today.
The girls are baking their cupcakes today.
A Red Velvet cupcake was eaten by Mariah Carey.
Comma Splice
Present Time
Passive Voice
Repetition/redundancy
Allison ate the cookie and the cupcake, and it was good.
Make no changes
Change structure to make it good
Get rid of cookie
Change structure to clarify what was good
Sat there looking beautifully appetizing.
The donkey sat appetizing.
Cupcakes are good.
The cupcake sat there looking beautifully appetizing.
Sat there looking beautifully appetizing, the cupcake.
The icing is done chilling in the refrigerator now the cupcakes need to be taken out of the oven.
Fused Run-On
Fragment
Simple Sentence
Cupcakes
First add vanilla. Then add eggs. Add milk. Mix them together.
Get rid of the periods.
Put together with commas and conjunctions.
Make into more sentences.
Change the words.
The cupcake set the record for largest pastry item, it was so good!
The cupcake set the record for the largest pastry item, and it was so good!
The cupcake set the record for the largest pastry item, because it was so good!
And the cupcake set the record for the largest pastry item, it was so good!
The cupcake set the record and it was good.
As the churning batter was whisked, it started to turn blue.
Choppy Sentence
Stringy Sentence
Conjunctive adverb placement
Repetition/Redundancy
If you want your cupcakes to taste good, you need to following directions.
Unclear Pronoun Placement
Faulty parallelism
Conjunctive adverb clause
Misplaced Modifier
When the cupcakes and the pies fell on the floor, it crumbled.
When both the cupcakes and the pies fell on the floor, the cupcakes crumbled.
When the they fell on the floor, they crumbled.
It crumbled when they fell.
The pies were good.
Taylor Swift preferred to bake cookies, however she loved baking cupcakes with me.
Taylor Swift preferred to make cookies, however; she loved baking cupcakes with me.
Taylor Swift preferred to make cookies however, she loved baking cupcakes with me.
Taylor Swift preferred to bake cookies; however, she loved baking cupcakes with me.
Taylor Swift preferred to make cookies however she loved baking cupcakes with me.
I ate the cupcakes. They were very good. They were nice and moist. My favorite one was chocolate.
Put commas were there are periods.
Don't need to do anything.
Make into more semtences.
Make into 1-2 sentences that flow.
Cupcakes are gross if they are too dry make them moist!
Misplaced Modifier
Fused Run-On
Stringy Sentence
Fragment
Getting rainbow icing all over her face.
The baby is getting rainbow icing all over her face.
The baby got icing on face.
She got icing on face.
She gotten rainbow icing all over her face.
When Billy Bob burned the cupcake in the oven, it was ruined.
Change the sentence structure to clarify who Billy Bob is.
Make no changes.
Change the sentence structure to clarify what got ruined.
Take out the subject.
A cupcake was squashed beneath the dog’s toes.
Active Voice
Super active voice
Passive Voice
Super passive voice
I don’t want to spend too much time doing my homework, because then I won’t have a lot of time to bake cupcakes and eat them while dancing to music by Bruno Mars.
Choppy Sentence
Stringy Sentence
Bumpy Sentence
Good sentence
My cupcakes have to being very impressive if I want to win the competition.
My cupcakes have to been very impressive if I want to win the competition.
My cupcakes has to be very impressive if I want to win the competition.
My cupcakes has to being very impressive if I want to win the competition.
My cupcakes have to be very impressive if I want to win the competition.
