Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 15

See if you can identify the ten sentence-skills mistakes in paragraph B. Do this, first of all, by going back and underlining the ten spots in paragraph B that differ in wording or punctuation from paragraph A. Then try to identify the ten sentence-skills mistakes by circling what you feel is the correct answer in each of the ten statements on the following page.
HINT
Comparing paragraph B with the correct version may help you guess correct answers even if you are not familiar with the names of certain skills.
1. The title should not be set off with
a. capital letters.
b. quotation marks.
2. In word group 2, there is a
a. missing comma.
b. missing apostrophe.
c. sentence fragment.
d. dangling modifier.
3. In word group 3, there is a
a. run-on.
b. sentence fragment.
c. mistake in subject-verb agreement.
d. mistake involving an irregular verb.
4. In word group 5, there is a
a. sentence fragment.
b. spelling error.
c. run-on.
d. mistake in subject-verb agreement.
5. In word group 7, there is a
a. misplaced modifier.
b. dangling modifier.
c. mistake in parallelism.
d. run-on.
6. In word group 8, there is a(n)
a. incorrect subject-verb agreement.
b. run-on.
c. comma mistake.
d. missing capital letter.
7. In word group 11, there is a
a. mistake involving an irregular verb.
b. sentence fragment.
c. slang phrase.
d. mistake in subject-verb agreement.
8. In word group 12, there is a
a. missing apostrophe.
b. missing comma.
c. mistake involving an irregular verb.
d. sentence fragment.
9. In word group 13, there is a
a. mistake in parallelism.
b. mistake involving an irregular verb.
c. missing apostrophe.
d. missing capital letter.
10. In word group 15, there is a
a. missing quotation mark.
b. mistake involving an irregular verb.
c. sentence fragment.
d. mistake in pronoun point of view.