Correct all grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, usage errors.
(1 pt a piece for each error)
1. The ferret was named after a famous politician,
Ruth Lessindeed, therefore eventually it took to stealing food from our plates.
2. After the official announcement of the
discovery of Moses's contacts with his bookie, pope Charlie revealed that
those who had bet against him leading his people out of Egypt had been swindled.
3. Jeremiah had no idea that ken-l-ration
which is the meatiest dog food on the market was actually made from hedgehog
parts and he denounced it's inclusion in the school lunch program.
4. Archie knew the man that introduced himself,
looked him in the eye and smiled, and he decided there was nothing to loose
by letting the man take a bite of his sandwich.
5. John spoke his line quick get out of your
pantsuit so that Dawn will think I am a new man.
6. I began to unload the car taking the cooler,
then the blankets, mats, kite, frisbee and the spam carved into the shape
of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
Correct the faulty parallel construction. (4 pts.)
7. While he was watching his brother do the
dishes and dry the plastic silverware, Joe McGillicuddy knew that his brother
would always be his mother's favorite and his chances for redemption were
slim.
Locate the clauses in the following sentences and determine which is a
relative clause or a noun clause. (2 pts. a piece)
8. Counting on some sort of payback, the
man who was eating the last of the ice cream decided to move to another state.
9. Out of frustration the woman no longer
questioned whether her boyfriend took his Flintstones vitamin during breakfast.
10. Martha accused George of eating all
the Gummi bears in the pantry although there was no evidence that the dentist
could find for her claim.
11. After its routine walk in the woods,
the skunk flinched, revealing its long-held suspicion that birds are dirtier
than everyone thinks.
Fix the following run-on sentences/sentence fragments. (3 pts. a piece)
12. Because he was never satisfied with
the way she did her hair, even though he secretly found her teased look exciting
when he looked at her from the side. He often found himself gazing longingly
at all the wares at the wig shop.
13. During the male giraffe's brief encounter
with the leopard while their pens were near each other, the ostrich had no
one to flirt with by making eye contact, so it finally stuck its head in the
sand and this is the real story of how the ostrich became so shy and frightened.
14. Actually, there is no one being held
responsible for this sentence because it is clear that no one wishes to ensure
that its meaning is clear, and I, as the sole proprietor, have no other choice
but to assault the reader's sensibilities, and the reader knows this.
Write one sentence that uses a participial phrase and an infinitive. (5
pts)
15.
(Use the back of the print-out to formulate your answers that require you
to write sentences.)