Grammar Quiz #9
Rewrite the following paragraph so that it is grammatically correct and appropriate for a research paper:
The term kook is similar to the term Barney which is surf lingo for persons who don't understand
what's going on around them in the water. Surfing came about from peoples whose society and
well-being was directly related to the ocean. It was a social way to display your ability in the
water to the other waterman. I personally come from a surfing family our car used to have a
bumper sticker on it that said "My child taught your honor role student how to surf". I believe that
the original surfing culture cannot coincide with the mind-set of the people in power. Essentially
Capitalism killed the tradition of surfing (Bowers, 212) and the culture people once had with the
ocean by putting a false idea about what the ocean is, a happy fun go lucky place.
Grammar Quiz 7 - Agreements (Number/Gender)
1.) A couple of the machines is malfunctioning. First it beeps, then they start to shake.
2.) My mother is really wonderful. It seems like they always want to cook for me.
3.) The teacher and the student is tired.
4.) Neither the tulip nor the daisy are in full bloom this season.
5.) A list of names are not really complete.
6.) Boy and Alamein live in a small community where it's hard for him to get a job so they
steal money.
7.) The people at my school seems very intelligent.
8.) Fifty percent of the school's children have a psychological problem.
9.) Everyone brought his lunch.
10.) The number of people who eat liver are small.
Grammar Quiz 6 – Parallelism
Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as "and" or "or."
Directions: Rewrite the following sentences so that they are grammatically correct.
1. Boy and Alamein’s failure to understand each other’s needs and desire leads to mutual unhappiness.
2. Boy is forced to live a very difficult life which includes; living in poverty, being bullied by students at school, having a deceased mother, and a father in prison.
3. I lived in Argentina, travelled to Asia, and like taking a boat every year to the Philippines.
4. On vacation we will go skiing, try to go tubing, and we'll snowboard.
5. The renovated concert hall is both beautiful and it is spacious.
Directions: Rewrite the Paragraph so that it is grammatically correct AND in correct MLA FORMAT.
The ending of a poem serves as a final thought, but can also be ambiguous which lets the reader participate in making meaning of the poem. The poet Elizabeth Bishop ends her well-known poem The Fish with the line "was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! / And I let the fish go." (The Academy of America Poets). This ending includes assonance and repetition; two kinds of literary devices that help the audience interpret the ambiguity of the poem. An older poet and contemporary of Bishop, William Carlos Williams, ends his well-read poem This is Just to Say, with the lines: "...so sweet / and so cold" (The Academy of America Poets). Like Bishop, Williams, uses assonance and repetition, in the end of this poem to create ambiguity. While both literary devices both create ambiguity--they also offer different moral possibilities.
Grammar Quiz #4: Comma Splices
Comma splices are similar to run-on sentences because they also incorrectly connect independent clauses. A comma splice occurs when two independent clauses are connected with only a comma. As with a run-on sentence, there are a few different ways to correct a comma splice. Consider the following sentence and the revised versions that follow it.
Comma Splice: My family bakes together nearly every night, we then get to enjoy everything we make together.
Comma Splice: My family bakes together nearly every night, we then get to enjoy everything we make together.
- Correction 1: My family bakes together nearly every night. We then get to enjoy everything we make together.
The comma splice has been corrected by breaking the sentence into two separate sentences.
- Correction 2: My family bakes together nearly every night, and we then get to enjoy everything we make together.
The comma splice has been corrected by adding a coordinating conjunction and a comma.
- Correction 3: After my family bakes together nearly every night, we get to enjoy everything we make together.
The comma splice has been corrected by adding a subordinating conjunction and a comma.
QUIZ
1. Composition is course in the English Department, college students are embracing it enthusiastically.
2. My father is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, he also heads the Warrant Commission.
3. All over the country, people sell products over the Internet, these people are making impressive profits.
4. There are many mistakes in my paper, lots of them are due to lack of proofreading.
5. In the i of the film, Boy tries to impress Chardonnay, she thinks he's lame though.
6. The character tries to gain acceptance, by doing things that are unethical, get gets nowhere.
7. Because the grass was just cut it reminds me that it is morning, I love the smell of that.
8. There was an accident on H1 westbound last night, several people got hurt.
9. Jane missed several assignments, she knew her grade would be lowered, but she didn't expect a D.
10. Podcasting is changing the way information is being distributed, now you only need to subscribe to a podcast, then new episodes will be delivered to your computer.
Grammar Quiz #3
Grammar Quiz #2
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Grammar Quiz #2
1.) Your first sentence must define war, and you must use a COLON (:) in your definition.
2.) Your second sentence must be a feeling about future WARS (use the "war" in the plural form).
3.) Your third sentence must describe what WAR must look like. Use sensory detail (taste, sound, touch, sight,and smell) to describe war. You must also use at least one EM-DASH (--) in this sentence.
4.) Your fourth sentence will be a statement that answers the question: Why should the United States celebrate the anniversary of 9/11? You must use a SEMICOLON (;) in your answer.
Please answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper.
Grammar Quiz #1
Run-on sentences are sentences that lack punctuation; they can be long, but they can also be short.
The “put a comma everywhere you’d pause” idea is an unfortunately common myth. You do typically pause when you’re reading a sentence out loud and you come across a comma, but that doesn’t mean that every time you’d pause when you’re speaking, your sentence needs a comma.
In passive voice, the target of the action gets promoted to the subject position.
Singular-plural agreement: Nouns need to agree in number with the words that refer to them.
Fragment: These are sometimes useful in writing, but can often confuse the reader because a fragment is an incomplete thought.
A preposition is a word that creates a relationship between other words. It's been said that prepositions often deal with space and time.
Use the apostrophe to show possession. Place the apostrophe before the s to show singular possession, and after the s to show plural possession.The only time an apostrophe is used for it's is when it is a contraction for it is or it has.
As a group, rewrite the following sentences so that they are correct. The grammatical issues in each sentence are highlighted for you in the parentheses.
1.) When most people think of composition, they probably think of a writing, but composition is found in one’s everyday life. (Comma usage, plural-singular agreement).
2.) One of my strengths is my introductions, when given a topic, for some reason I have the ability to portray my words in a way that catches peoples attention. (Run-on, apostrophe)
3.) To me the word composition means to make something. Not just using words to make a sentence but also notes to make music and a paintbrush is used to make a masterpiece. (Fragment, run-on, comma)
4.) Composition to me is much more than composing literary pieces, its the ability to come up with your own ideas or opinions. (apostrophe, passive voice).
5.) In High School, I had teacher that commented that I wrote “in my blood.” It took me a day (and some discussion) to realize what he meant by that. (Passive voice, capitalization, preposition)
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