Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 39

EDITING TEST 4
Identify the ten sentence-skills mistakes at the underlined spots in the student paper that follows. From the box below, choose the letter that des cribes 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. run-on
b. mistake in subject-verb agreement
c. faulty parallelism
d. missing quotation marks
e. wordiness
f. slang
g. missing comma that smokers should quit smoking for the sake of those who are around them. Perhaps the most helpless creatures that suffer from being near a smoker unborn study suggests that the risk of having an undersized baby is doubled if pregnant women are exposed to cigarette smoke for about two hours a day. Pregnant women should refrain from smoking and smoke-filled rooms. Spouses of smokers are also They are more likely than spouses of nonsmokers to die of heart disease and the development of fatal cancers. Office workers are a final group that can be harmed by a smoke-filled environment. The U.S. Surgeon General has said "Workers who smoke are a health risk to their coworkers. While it is undoubtedly true that one can argue that smokers have the right to hurt themselves they do not have the right to hurt others. Smokers should abandon their deadly habit for the health of others at home and at work.
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