Name: ____________________________________
Date: __________________________
Period: _________________
Use the Editing and Proofreading Marks handout to correct the sentence then write the
sentence correctly on the following lines. Points will be deducted for incomplete work.
SET 5 : Focus on Capitalization and Comma Splices
 Capitalization, comma splice, parentheses
o In the 1905 Football Season, 18 players were killed, president Theodore Roosevelt
established the national collegiate athletic association ncaa to make the game safer.
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 Capitalization, comma splice, spelling, italics (underlining)
o The book of genesis, which is honored by jews, muslims, and christians alike,
contains a detailed discription of Noah’s Ark, the battleship Oregon was built to the
same meashurements.
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 Capitalization, comma splice, using the right word, abbreviation
o South Dakota is the geographical center of the United States, its also the home of mt.
rushmore, the mountain that has the likenesses of four U.S. Presidents carved into it.
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 Capitalization, comma (nonrestr4ictive phrase or clause), quotation marks,
comma (other), spelling
o Whenever aunt Corrie who lives in the western suburbs of Chicago gets asked how to
get to lake Michigan, she says drive straight East until you fall in.
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 Punctuation (title), capitalization, comma splice, hyphen
o The song the daring young man on the flying trapeze was written about Jules
Leotard, a French trapeze artist, his second claim to fame was the tight fitting
garment that was named after him.
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Comma splice, capitalization, spelling, punctuation (title),
comma (appositive), abbreviation, comma (Other)
According to Gail b Slap, md and Martha M Jablow authors of the book
teenage health care, over 80 percent of high-school athleats who play football are
out with injuries for at least four days of the season. Ancient romans played a
game similar to modern football using an inflated animal bladder, they introduced
the game to the british isles which they conquered around 100 BCE. The first paid
player was William Heffelfinger, he played for the Allegheny athletic association
on November 12 1892 and was paid $500. The information please almanac says
that the first professional football game in the united states was played in 1895 in
Latrobe Pennsylvania. The national football league (nfl) wasn’t founded until
1921.
Number the lines in the paragraph. Combine the sentences that
begin in line 7 and 9 using a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb.
Write your combined sentence below.
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