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Try your hand at the following Final Celebration of Knowledge-Relevant sentences

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Try your hand at the following Final Celebration of Knowledge-Relevant sentences. Correct them to the best of your ability. Use the 13.3 Discussion Board Forum to post a sentence or two that confused you the most, and help you peers address their own struggles!

 

Review Round 1: Fix the following sentences using your course knowledge!

 

1. Tyrone got lost driving to the wedding he refused to stop to ask for direction.

 

2. Rosa got a parking ticket she decided to fight it in traffic court.

 

3. At Weight Watchers we believe that being overweight is not hereditary it is a choice. 

 

4. It is not surprising that our society is increasingly violent after all television desensitizes us to brutality at a very early age. 

 

5. There are three types of leave; annual leave, used for vacations, sick leave, used for medical appointments and illness, and personal leave, used for a variety of personal reasons.

 

 

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Review Round 2: Fix the following sentences using your course knowledge!

 

1. Amanda woke up, got dressed, and running down the street to catch the bus.

 

 

2. The bicycle has large wheels, a seat that is big, and tall handlebars.

 

 

3. Police dogs are used for finding lost children, tracking criminals, and the detection of bombs and illegal drugs.

 

 

4. Being on time, wearing a nice outfit, and to know the company are a few steps you have to follow to be successful at an interview.

 

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Review Round 3: Fix the following sentences using your course knowledge!

 

1. A dot and a dash represents the letter A in Morse code.

 

2. Either the waiter or the customers has misplaced the bill.

 

3. Everyone in this room are welcome to express an opinion.

 

4. The family are living in a cramped apartment.

 

5. There is surprisingly few honeybees left in southern China.

 

6. The main source of income for Trinidad are oil and pitch.   

 

 

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Review Round 4: Fix the following sentences using your course knowledge!

 

1. When someone has been drinking, they are likely to speed.

 

 

2. Most parents think you have a major influence on your child’s behavior.

 

 

3. If anyone notices any suspicious activity, they should report it to the police.    

 

 

4. The Department of Education issued new guidelines for school security. They were trying to anticipate problems and avert disaster. 

 

 

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Review Round 5: Fix the following sentences using your course knowledge!

 

1. Michael Oher had terrible grades but Briarcrest admitted him as a student.

 

2. In John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars Hazel Lancaster uses humor to shield herself from sad experiences.

 

3. “With regard to air travel” Stephen Ambrose notes “Jefferson was a full century ahead of the curve.”

 

4. Doug a certified scuba diver was no stranger to seeing sharks in the water.

 

5. I have two papers to writer for English tonight moreover my Math professor assigned 20 pages of reading.

 

6. An ambulance threaded its way through police cars fire trucks and irate citizens.

 

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Review Round 6: Fix the following sentences using your course knowledge!

 

1. The monarch arrived in a gold carriage at the gate pulled by four white horses. 

 

 

2. Upon entering the doctor’s office, a skeleton caught my attention.

 

 

3. While working as a ranger in Everglades National Park, a Florida panther crossed the road in front of my truck one night.

 

 

4. The old Marlboro ads depicted a man on a horse smoking a cigarette.

 

 

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Review Round 7: Fix the following sentences using your course knowledge!

 

1. Anita was driven to the theater by Carla.
2. A strange sound was made in the willow tree by the monkey that had escaped from the zoo.

 

 

3. The window was broken by Bob.

 

 

4. Research will be presented by Alejandro at the conference.

 

 

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Review Round 8: Fix the following sentences using your course knowledge!

 

1. Its unusual to put crickets in your coffee, but I do it anyway.

 

2. The alarm clocks buzz startled Shane awake.

 

3. Betty Ann could not resist petting the adorable poodle puppie's.

 

4. While Alejandros research is impressive, the conferences steering committee disagreed with his findings about octopi and their ability to manipulate human brain activity.

 

 

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