The following sentences may contain one or more of the errors discussed in class. For each sentence, name the type of error (e.g. comma splice, incorrect title format, wrong word) and then rewrite the sentence (without changing its meaning) so that the error no longer exists. If a sentence contains no error, simply respond, "no error."
Sample question: My brother borrowed my car yesterday, and he drives it into a stop sign.
Sample answer: Lack of verb tense consistency.
My brother borrowed my car yesterday, and he drove it into a stop sign.
Here are the first three questions. Please respond in this post's comments area.
1. Senator Henderson lost he spent seven million dollars on his campaign.
2. The meteor penetrated well below the moon's surface - over seven miles deep.
3. One of Groucho Marx's most famous quotations is, "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members".
Good job on the first three. Here are three more.
4. Any member of the Cleveland Browns who does not attend practice will lose their starting position.
5. The literary critic David Tabachnick claims that "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is the greatest novel ever written in English.
6. The dalmatian lost three inches of it's tail in the oven door.
Senator Henderson lost; he spent seven million dollars on his campaign.
ReplyDelete1) Senator Henderson says he lost seven million dollars on his losing campaign.
ReplyDelete2)The meteor penetrated over seven miles deep into the moon's surface.
3) Groucho Marx is known to have said,"I don't care to belong to a club accepts people like me as members".
Senator Henderson lost the campaign, which he spent seven million dollars on.
ReplyDeleteKylie has fixed sentence 1. A semicolon is used to join the two independent clauses. The first version used no punctuation at all. What type of error is this?
ReplyDeleteAaron had fixed number two, but what has he fixed? What error has he eliminated from the sentence?
ReplyDeleteThe error in number three still exists.
ReplyDelete6. The dalmatian lost three inches of its tail in the oven door.
ReplyDelete4. Any members, of the Cleveland Browns, who does not attend practice will lose their starting positions.
ReplyDelete1. Senator Henderson lost; even though he sprent seven million dollars on his campaign.
ReplyDelete2. The meteor penetrated over seven miles deep well below the moon's surface.
3. One of Groucho Marx's most famous quote is, "I do not care to belong to a club who accepts people like me as a member."
Angela Gough Reed
4. "No error"
ReplyDelete5. The literary critic; David Tabachnick claims "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is the greatest novel ever written in English language.
6. The dalmation lost three inches of it's tail after closing it in the oven door.
The literary critic, David Tabachnick claims that FANTASTIC MR. FOX is the greatest novel ever written in English.
ReplyDeleteMeghan has answered number six correctly. The problem is the wrong form of "it's."
ReplyDeleteIts = belonging to it.
It's = it is.
Anonymous is on the right track with number five. The error deals with title format. But the title of a feature film is not represented in all caps. How should it look?
That was me for number five. I did not realize I put anonymous. :) I tried to put the title in Italics but I could not figure out on here how to do so.
ReplyDeleteOh, thanks Amanda. Good point about the italics. There's no way to use them in the comments field. So you're correct--the title of a feature film should be placed in italics (or underlined).
ReplyDeleteThat leaves number three. Here's a hint: it has something to do with pronouns.
4. Any members of the Cleveland Browns whom does not attend practice will lose their starting positions.
ReplyDelete4)Any member of the Cleveland Browns who do not attend practice will lose their starting position.
ReplyDeleteThe literary critic David Tabachnick, claims that "Fantastic Mr. Fox", is the greatest novel ever written in English.
ReplyDelete6. The dalmatian lost three inches of its tail in the oven door.
ReplyDeleteSome people are replying to sentences that have already been corrected. Be sure to read the previous posts before you comment.
ReplyDeleteWe've got them all done except number three. Here's another hint: is member singular or plural?
1) Senator Henderson lost; he spent seven millon dollars on his campagin.
ReplyDelete2)The meteor penetrated well below the moon's surface--over seven miles ddep.
3)One of Groucho Marx's most famous quotations is, "i don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
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4. Any members of the Cleveland Browns who does not attend practice will lose their starting position.
ReplyDeleteOkay, great. Amanda got number four. The problem was that "member" is singular, and "their" is plural. She changed "member" to "members." It would also correct to change "their" to the singular pronoun "his."
ReplyDeleteI'm going to post the next three sentences in a new post just to avoid confusion. We're done with numbers 1-6 now.