CCBC Catonsville English Department Asst. Professor Berry Student: Date: Editing Exercise: Common Sentence Errors Detection and Correction +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Directions: Each of the twenty-five sentences below have a variety of errors. Your job is to detect what kind of error(s) has been made in the sentence and correct it. You need not "re-write" the sentence. Determine the kind of error that has been made and write the error term on the line labeled, "Error Detected." Then, correct the error and write your correction on the next line called, "Error Corrected." Each sentence will have two errors. Each error properly detected and corrected is worth two points—one for proper identification and one for a proper correction. Since there are twenty-five sentences with two errors each, you will identify and correct at least fifty errors, and since there are ten kinds of errors listed in this exercise, you will find and correct each error five times. Errors in the Exercise: 1. Fragments 2. Comma Splice 3. Run-on / Fused Sentences 4. Subject/Verb Agreement S. Verb Tense & Verb Tense Shift 6. Pronoun Agreement 7. Missing or Misplaced Commas 8. Capitalization 9. Hyphenation 10.Apostrophe Abbreviation Code: (Frag) (CS) (RO or FS) (SV) (VT or VTS) (PA) (CN or NCN) (Cap) (HY) (AP) Sentences to Correct: 1. My mothers best friend came to dinner last night and we had the best time! Errors Detected: 1 "Ace 3" 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 2. After attending school for many years in England Thomas Crabbot returning home. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 3. The automotive industry which is the second largest industry in the United States will be undergoing a multi year restructuring, beginning in May. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 4. Though the railroad museum in Baltimore was torn down last year. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. S. Miriam Webster was voted the best dressed student at Dunbar High School, she will also graduate at the top of her class. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 6. The party is moving to Pretty Boy reservoir at midnight and we is leaving at 11:00 p.m., i f you decide to join us! Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 7. Everyone needs to take their coats and to throw all of them over the threelegged stools near the bar. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 8. Delta Airlines, where most of Delaware's pilots work, are on strike tomorrow, it will be running half the number of flights of its normal airline schedule. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 9. The players helmets that were tossed on the grass behind the stadium and never picked up by the team manager. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 10. Before he came home last week he decided to attend the three day funeral. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 11. The CIA agent recruited Jim and I when we were in college at Yale university. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 12. Because he was so handsome and since the girls loved his well-defined muscles which were the largest at the school the head cheerleader, who was the school Salutatorian, and her sister, Carol the other honor's award winner. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 13. The choir is almost done practicing; in two hours they will be singing at my brothers wedding. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 14. The boys in the band can't get enough of those crispy fries, they could eat them day and night. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 15. Boston, Massachusetts, Charleston, South Carolina, and Newport, Rhode Island have one thing in common, they were founded in the same year. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 16. The Ravens, Orioles, and Terrapins are the three most popular sports teams in Baltimore they draws more fans than most other teams in other cities. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 17. After the race ends, we going to head over to ale mary's for those delicious jumbo wings and cold draft beer. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 18. The students caps and gowns didn't arrive in time for the students to pick them up before the graduation ceremony. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 19. The Philadelphia Phillies which won the world series back in 1977 before the strike took place is going to move its team to a southern state, such as Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 20. Depending on the nature of the attack and from where it originated Seal Team Six will be deployed at 0300 hours to retaliate, it will be a "silent" mission. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 21. 1 have ninety-eight-year-old grandmother who was alive during the great depression. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 22. Who do you want to take to the party tomorrow night we are going together in a limousine. Errors Detected: 1. 2. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 23. Some of the students working in Ms. Jones laboratory at the end of Dexter Hall. Errors Detected: Errors Corrected: 1. 2. 1. 2. 24. Religious scholars are trying to find archeological proof of Jesus's family in south Jerusalem. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1. 25. The prisoners huddle in the cold prison yard and talked, cussed, and spat on the frozen turf till their noses froze and they could barely feel their hands. Errors Detected: 2. 1. Errors Corrected: 2. 1.