Bellwork 11

Bellwork 11-1 Miss Glenflinkenhaven does two strange things, she insisted on wearing a giant hat made of fruit when she goes grocery shopping, and she plays the harp with her tows. There are 3 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork 11-1 Answers Miss Glenflinkenhaven does two strange things: she insists on wearing a giant hat made of fruit when she goes grocery shopping, and she plays the harp with her toes. Miss Glenflinkenhaven does two strange things should be followed by a colon. (A dash would be acceptable.) The entire sentence moves back and forth between present and past tense. It starts out in present tense, so it should continue in present tense. Toes are those appendages on our feet—and also on Miss Glenflinenhaven’s.

Bellwork 11-2 I felt sorry for the old man cause people just do’nt go around smiling like that all the time unless their mentally unbalanced or harboring extreme anxiety. There are 3 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork 11-2 Answers I felt sorry for the old man because people just don’t go around smiling like that all the time unless they’re mentally unbalanced or harboring extreme anxiety. Because is the correct word. The apostrophe belongs where the letter is missing. There is the contraction for they are. The word is where, not wear. Wear is what you do with clothing. The comma before if is not absolutely necessary, but it does make the sentence a bit clearer.

Bellwork 11-3 Sara the girl in the first seat was chosen as the knew haul monitor. There are 4 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork 11-3 Answers Sara, the girl in the first seat, was chosen as the knew haul monitor. The girl in the first seat is an appositive and should be set off by commas. New is the correct word. Hall is the correct word.

Bellwork 11-4 Never hug a hibble, in a hibble habble horper, never kiss a kibble, in a kibble kabble korper. There are 3 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork 11-4 Answers Never hug a hibble in a hibble habble horper, and never kiss a kibble in a kibble kabble korper. Okay, the sentence makes no sense unless you know what a hibble habble horper or a kibble kabble korper is. However, even with such nonsensical words, we can tell that the sentence is a run. Two sentences cannot be separated by a comma alone and it’s easy to tell that the item is really two sentences, even if no has ever even thought of hugging a hibble. There is no need for the commas after hibble and kibble.

Bellwork 11-5 My mom, she worries a lot about bed bugs and nuclear war. There are 3 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork 11-5 Answers My mom worries a lot about bed bugs and nuclear war. My mom, she is a double subject. There is no need to say she. A lot is two words.

Bellwork 11-6 Patrice lead the lead pencil boycott because he was a good leeder There are 3 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork 11-6 Answers Patrice led the lead pencil boycott because he was a good leader. Lead and led are often confused. Lead, pronounced to rhyme with head is a kind of metal. However, another word that sounds the same is led, which is the past tense of the verb lead (pronounced leed) The sentence should end in a period.

Bellwork 11-7 Pickles my “orange tabby cat” clawed her way through the new screen door to chase a couple a robins who weren’t at all eager to be somebodys dinner. There are 6 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork 11-7 Answers Pickles, my orange tabby cat, clawed her way through the new screen door to chase a couple of robins who weren’t at all eager to be somebody’s dinner. There is no reason for quotation marks. My orange tabby vat is an appositive that interrupts the sentence to give more information about Pickles. It should be set off by commas. The phrase couple of may sound like couple a when we say it, but that’s not the way it is spelled. Somebody needs an apostrophe after it to show possession. It’s a dinner that belongs to somebody.

Bellwork 11-8 Harrison looked at his father and goes, “Yuk! Dad why do you always have to ware those plaid golf pants when my friends are around. There are 4 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork 11-8 Answers Harrison looked at his father and said, “Yuk! Dad, why do you always have to wear those plaid golf pants when my friends are around?” People say, not go. Harrison looked at his father and said. Harrison is directly addressing Dad, so Dad needs a comma after it. Harrison is also asking Dad a question. Therefore, a question mark goes after his question, inside the quotation marks. Wear is the correct spelling.

Bellwork 11-9 No it’s not O.K. with us if your little sister & her friends want to go thru our haunted house with a flashlite because there afraid of the dark. There are 6 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork 11-9 Answers No, it’s not okay with us if your little sister and her friends want to go through our haunted house with a flashlight because they’re afraid of the dark. Introductory words like yes, no well and oh are followed by a comma. In all except the most informal writing, okay and and should be spelled out. There is the correct spelling of the contraction for they are.

Bellwork Erin didn’t do good on the grammer test. There are 2 errors. Directions: Write the statement above correcting all errors. Learning Goal: The student will be able to find the grammatical errors in the above statement.

Bellwork Answers Erin didn’t do well on the grammar test. To describe how someone did something, well is the word to use, not good. Grammar ends in ar, not er.