Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 63

EDITING TEST 7
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. missing comma
e. missing capital letter
f. dangling modifier
g. homonym mistake
h. missing apostrophe
i. cliché
Cars can destroy your ego. First the kind of car you drive can make you feel like a second-class citizen. new, expensive car and are forced to drive an old clunker. You'll be the object of pitying stares and nasty sneers. Drivers of newer-model cars just appreciate it when an '83 with terminal body rust lurches into the next parking slot. You may even find that drivers go out of way not to park near you. Breakdowns, too, can damage your self-respect. You may be an assistant bank manager or a job still feel when sitting on the side of the road. As the other cars whiz past, you'll stare helplessly at your open hood or steaming radiator. In cases like this, you may even be turned into that lowest of creatures, the pedestrian. 0
your car has delivered another staggering blow to your self-esteem.
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