Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 31

EDITING TEST 3
Identify the ten sentence-skills mistakes at the underlined spots in the student paper that follows. From the box below, choose the letter that describes each mistake and write that letter in the space provided. (The same kind of mistake may appear more than once.) Then, in the spaces between the lines, edit and correct each mistake.
a. fragment
b. run-on
c. inconsistent verb tense
d. dangling modifier
e. missing comma
f. spelling mistake
I had a strange experience last was shopping for Christmas presents when I came to a small clothing shop. I was going to pass it by, the mannequin seemed to wink at me. I was really looked around to see if anyone else was watching. Shaking my stepped closer to the window. Then I really began to question my looked as if the mannequin moved legs. My face must have shown alarm because the mannequin then I sighed with 0
was a human model after all.
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