A guided workshop for SUNY Sullivan students April 2012.

A guided workshop for SUNY Sullivan students April 2012

Part One

What is wrong with this sentence?

The sentence needs serial commas (commas in a list or series). WRONG: They shopped for cookies, fruit lunch meat milk and bread. CORRECT:

The sentence needs a semi-colon to avoid a run-on situation. WRONG: The weather was hot and dry there was no sign of rain. CORRECT:

The sentence needs quotation marks and a comma before the quote begins. WRONG: I should have chosen the red car said Sharon regretfully. CORRECT:

Part Two

The sentence needs the proper form of the past tense of the verb “drink.” Thelma drunk a cup of coffee. CORRECT:

Use the correct tense of the verb – the PAST! WRONG: I use to live in New York. CORRECT:

We need to use the correct verb tense (timing). We need the PAST. WRONG: Yesterday, she reports the dog missing. CORRECT:

The noun (“everyone”) needs to agree with the verb (“have” or “has”). WRONG: Everyone have a favorite dessert. CORRECT:

What is wrong with this?

A fragment cannot be a sentence on its own. WRONG: Marsha scolded the boy. Calling him an ungrateful brat. CORRECT:

What is wrong with this?

These are really two sentences. We need a period or a semi-colon. She was late for work today, she overslept again. CORRECT:

What is the meaning of the underlined word, based on the rest of the sentence?

Like the waning moon, hope diminished with each passing day. Based on the sentence,

What is the meaning of the underlined word, based on the sentence?

The guide reiterated the possibility of danger and repeated the warning again and again.

There’s a right way and a wrong way …

These words are misspelled.

These words are misspelled, too.

Here they all are, nice and right.

Source for Part One:

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