Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 55

EDITING TEST 6
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. mistake in subject-verb agreement
d. mistake in verb tense
e. mistake with quotation marks
f. mistake in pronoun point of view
g. spelling error
h. missing comma
One reason that I enjoy the commute to school is that the drive gives me time to myself. The classes and socializing at college great, and so is the time I spend with my family, but sometimes all this togetherness keeps from being able to think. In fact, I look forward to the time I have gives me a chance to plan what I'll accomplish in the day ahead. For example, one Tuesday afternoon my history professor that a rough outline for our semester report was due that Friday. I had already done some I had checked my proposed topic with her the week before. planned the entire history report in my mind. Then all I had to do when I got home was quickly jot it down before I forgot it. She asked me 0
She was amazed when I told her that I owed it all to commuting.
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