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ENGL 101 Celebration of Knowledge Practice   About: The following sections highlight some of the concepts you have studied and practiced this semester, and you can expect these same concepts on the Celebration

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ENGL 101 Celebration of Knowledge Practice

 

About: The following sections highlight some of the concepts you have studied and practiced this semester, and you can expect these same concepts on the Celebration.

 

Section #1: Comma Conundrum  

 - Add or delete commas where necessary in the following sentences. Please mark your revisions clearly if you choose not to rewrite the sentence.

 

  1. Sporting a pair of personalized running shoes Julie prepared for her race.

 

  1. After Chad went to the shopping mall he decided to stop at Chipotle for food.

 

  1. The man, who rescued Jana’s puppy, won her eternal gratitude.

 

  1. Jonathan forgot his baseball glove at home so Matthew decided to wait for him at Bryce Field a rundown baseball diamond.

 

  1. During lunch at the campus cafeteria, Mildred noticed the dirty tables the overworked cashiers and the outlandish price for a watery soda.

 

  1. Mark Twain trained as a printer, and worked as a steamboat pilot.

 

 

Section #2: Run-Ons/Comma Splices/Fragments

- Revise the following sentences using any method we have studied in class to make them grammatically correct and complete.

 

  1. Donna was upset. When she found her pearls were missing from the steel-plated safe in her hotel room.

 

  1. Alex and Brian wanted to see the new Resident Evil movie, they couldn’t wait to see the zombies in 3D.

 

  1. After the children washed the family car. They had a water fight with the wet sponges.

 

  1.  All applicants at that company must take a skills assessment test. Also, a personality profile

           test.

 

  1.  June is a month of nice weather that fact doesn’t explain why it is the most popular month  

 for weddings.

 

  1.  If I won the lottery.

 

 

Section #3: Subject Verb Agreement

- Identify the subject of each sentence AND  circle  the verb in the parentheses that agrees with the subject of the sentence. This section is worth 5 total points.

 

  1. Millions of tons of trash (floats / float) in our oceans. There (are / is) all kinds of items, including fishing nets and bottles. Currents in oceans (carry / carries) this debris so that it collects in big areas known as garbage patches. These areas of garbage (has / have) been increasing in size since plastic came to be commonly used, about sixty years ago. Anything made of plastic materials (are / is) very durable and buoyant, so it will float in the ocean for many years.

 

 

Section #4: Parallel Structure (2 points each)

- Each group of sentences below contains two errors in parallelism. On the lines below, revise the unbalanced or mismatched portion to make it parallel with the other items.

 

  1. Bartleby was selfish, impatient, and lacking kindness. Because of his personality, he was terrible as a sales representative, telephone operator, and managing an office.

 

a.  ______________________________              b.   ______________________________

 

  1. My New Year’s resolutions are to stop smoking, to study harder, and getting more involved in campus activities. On the other hand, my wife has resolved to eat more chocolate, exercising less, and to spend more time buying things at Anthropologie.

 

a.  ______________________________              b.   ______________________________

 

 

 

Section #5: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement 

- Rewrite the following sentences using any of the strategies you have learned to correct or remove a pronoun-antecedent agreement error.  

 

  1. Neither your father nor your brothers are allowed to drive his dirt bikes today.

 

 

  1. Each of the wild horses raced for their freedom.

 

 

  1. The two architects were asked to redesign the foyer for his or her new building.

 

 

  1. When swimmers ignore the instructions of lifeguards, they might drown, get stung by jellyfish, or have his or her legs chewed off by hungry sharks.

 

 

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