Glossary of Usage Review
Numbered Heads Together
Rules of Numbered Heads Together
Process:
• A sentence will be posted on the board.
• AS A GROUP: determine how to correct that sentence. Keep
in mind the Glossary of Usage Terms ONLY.
***it is vital that EACH group member be able to make and
EXPLAIN the correction to the class***
• Dice are rolled.
• Once the dice are rolled, there is NO TALKING.
Your group WILL lose a tally if:
1. Someone is texting.
2. Someone has their head down.
3. Someone is talking after the dice are rolled.
Target 6
1. I can’t hardly wait until Spring Break.
Target 1
2. The freezing rain has slackened some, causing
the roads to be more manageable.
Target 4
3. Students ought to plan better; they hadn’t
ought to wait until the last minute to study.
Target 3
4. Especially when they could of started studying
a week in advance of the test.
Target 1
5. The salad that she made on the cooking show
looked amazing and included a cup of
strawberries, an cup of cucumbers, and a cup
of pan-seared scallops.
Target 2
7. I would rather eat a giant steak then to eat
grilled chicken, even though I know the
chicken would be better for me.
Target 4
8. The woman, she is so crazy that she spent the
entire day exercising when she could have
gone shopping.
Target 1
9. My daughter discovered a new recipe using all
her favorite things, but I think it is disgusting.
Target 2
10. If you do not study, the affect is that you
may not learn what you need to know for your
future.
11. Don’t think that it doesn’t make no sense to
prepare for what is to come.
14. Know that them things are meant to help
you with your writing.
15. Practicing these kind of questions will
improve not only your writing, but also they
way that you speak.
16. Try not to get too stressed and remember
that if it won’t matter in ten years it don’t
matter now.
17. However, you need to except the fact that
the proper usage of English will matter.
18. If you don’t get at least an 80% on this here
test, you will be taking another one, so do
your best.
19. I want you to truly learn the things I am
trying to learn you.
20. There are less students at RCSHS this year
than there were last year.
21. Students should bring the proper things to
class to be successful including paper, a
writing utensil, a book to read, a textbook,
and etc.
22. We are a long ways from being where we
need to be by the end of the year.
23. Students who disrupt class annoy their
teachers because they will not leave them be
and let them teach.
Which expression contains an error?
A: a hour to go
B: accept another assignment
C: the effects of the decision
A: Fitzgerald, Steinback, and etc.
B: anywhere you go
C: Where is my book at?
A: The key is besides the book.
B: the five had twenty fouls between them
C: the headlight is broken
A: She don’t like it.
B: many emigrated from Europe
C: fewer roses are not better
A: she performed good
B: they ought to go now
C: the governor implied in her speech
A: this here award
B: she put the ice in the glass
C: let them stay where they are
A: like they hadn’t rehearsed
B: might have eaten
C: nowhere near there
A: move off the desk
B: could of done better
C: either beef or chicken
A: reprimand respectfully but firmly
B: somewhat improved
C: those kind of stories
A: long way from home
B: I read where lunch is going up
C: the book which was titles Tamerlane
A: I don’t have any more.
B: can’t any of you finish
C: bring the book to the other room
He talked persuasively for a hour, but his workds
had no affect.
Dylan and I have looked everywheres but we
cannot find my camera.
Beside my job as a baby sitter, I work as a
hospital volunteer.
The enormous number of hours I spend studying
has had a beneficial affect on my grades.
The restaurant bill was split equally between the
three of us.
When you effect a situation, you have an effect
on it.
Rather then starting all over again, it is much
easier to make sure that you put your work in
your notebook, than you can easily find it
when you need it again.
I would of gone if the teacher would of let me.
The students acted like they had never heard of
the terms before, even though they had been
taught them last week in class.
When Monica she won the trophy, she couldn’t
hardly believe it.
This kind of drug is harmless when used
correctly; those kind are dangerous
The tasks were divided among us.
I might of gone to the concert if I’d heard about
it earlier.
He didn’t seem effected by the news.
Was it George Washington Carver or Thomas
Edison who invented all those uses for
peanuts.
He jumped down off of the horse.