Day 1
The Grapes of Wrath is generally considered to be John Steinbecks
masterpiece; the novel won the national book award and the Pulitzer
prize.
Bob wants to read The Grapes of Wrath because you can learn alot
about the 1930’s from it.
Capitalization of name of awards
Elimination of you without an antecedent
Correction of commonly confused words
Use of apostrophe to show possession
Day 1
The Grapes of Wrath is generally considered to be John Steinbeck’s
masterpiece; the novel won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer
Prize.
Use of apostrophe to show possession
Capitalization of names of awards
Bob wants to read The Grapes of Wrath because he can learn a lot about th
1930’s from it.
Elimination of you without antecedent
Correction of commonly misused words
Day 2
“The Grapes of Wrath” the teacher said “established Steinbeck as one
of the more highly-regarded authors of his era.”
Us students also learned that Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1962.
Elimination of hyphen used with compound modifier
Correct comparison of adverb
Correct pronoun case
Correct use of commas with a split quotation
Day 2
“The Grapes of Wrath," the teacher said, "established Steinbeck as one of the most
highly regarded authors of his era.”
Correct use of commas with a split quotation
Correct comparison of adjectives
Elimination of hyphen with compound modifier
We students also learned that Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1962.
Correct pronoun case
Day 3
The novel caused an enormous social outcry. The novel describes how
migrant workers are mistreated.
Use of relative clause to combine sentences
Even critics, who readers considered unshakeable, were shocked by the uproar
over what Steinbeck had written.
Correct case of relative pronoun
Spelling: addition of a suffix
Day 3
The novel, which describes how migrant workers were mistreated, caused an
enormous social outcry.
Use of relative clause to combine sentences
Even critics, whom readers considered unshakable, were shocked by the
uproar over what Steinbeck had written.
Correct use of relative pronoun
Spelling: addition of a suffix
Day 4
Steinbeck wanted to make the plight of the immigrants personal,
therefore; he chose to tell the story of one family the Joad’s.
The Joad’s drove from Oklahoma to California. Wanted a fresh start in a
new place.
Correction of sentence fragment
Correct use of semicolon and comma with a conjunctive adverb
Use of dash before explanatory information
Correct formation of plural
Day 4
Steinbeck wanted to make the plight of the immigrants personal;
therefore, he chose to tell the story of one family-the Joads.
Correct use of semicolon and comma with a conjunctive
adverb
Use of dash before explanatory information
Correct formation of plural
The Joads drove from Oklahoma to California. They wanted a fresh
start in a new place.
Correct formation of plural
Correction of sentence fragment
Day 5
Work in a peach orchard was described to the Joads by other migrant worker!
Some orchards had less workers then others, but the Joads were unable to jake
enough money to survive.
Elimination of unnecessary exclamation point
Correction of commonly confused words
Correct use of fewer and less
Use of active voice to improve style
Day 5
Other migrant workers described work in a peach orchard to the Joads.
Use of active voice to improve style
Elimination of unnecessary exclamation point
Some orchards had fewer workers than others, but the Joads were unable to
make enough money to survive.
Correct use of fewer and less
Correction of commonly confused words