NAME____________________________________________PERIOD______________
DOL #1-10
1. because your late finishing the job youll have to give we boys the video games to take
to jans house
Skills Covered: Homophone (you’re), Comma (introductory adverbial clause),
Apostrophes (contraction, possessive), Pronoun (case), Proper noun (person)
CORRECTED SENTENCE
2. my sister she dont always have time to visit us on our Birthdays but she does send
presents
Skills Covered: Single vs. double subject, Subject-verb agreement, Apostrophe
(contraction), Common noun, Comma (before but compound sentence)
CORRECTED SENTENCE
3. we wont be going to the south this fall however well be going to colorado
Skills Covered: Apostrophes (contractions), Proper nouns (geographical location state),
Semicolon (separate two main clauses), and Comma (after conjunctive adverb)
CORRECTED SENTENCE
4. i and my brother have chose to do the following start shopping for gifts mail our cards
early and plan to parties
Skills Covered: Pronoun (order), Capitalize I, Verb (choose), Colon (series), Commas
(series), Homophone (two)
CORRECTED SENTENCE
5. there truck would not start irregardless of what they did they finally called youre
mechanic i think
Skills Covered: Homophones (their, your), Regardless not Irregardless, Semicolon
(separate two main clauses), Comma (parenthetical expression), Capitalize I
CORRECTED SENTENCE
6. wasnt that a good football game we seen with betty and margaret your friends
Skills Covered: Apostrophe (Contraction), Verb (see), Proper nouns (persons), Comma
(appositive), Question mark
CORRECTED SENTENCE
7. the long poem childe harold’s pilgrimage was wrote by lord byron kim stated and is
considered one of the poets best
Skills Covered: Quotation Marks (interrupted direct quotation), Proper nouns (poem,
title, persons), Underline (long poem), Verb (write) Commas (interrupted direct
quotation), Apostrophe (possessive)
CORRECTED SENTENCE
8. when will you learn me to drive karen asked must i wait another six months
Skills Covered: Quotation marks (direct quotations), Words often confused (teach, learn),
Question marks, Proper noun (person), Period (avoidance of run-on sentence), Capitalize
I
CORRECTED SENTENCE
9. she has wrote a novel entitles mysterious manor and sold a painting named
remembrances
Skills Covered: Verb (write), Proper nouns (book, painting), Underline (book, painting)
CORRECTED SENTENCE
10. its always fare weather was sang by beverly at the festival held at the pilgrim building
Skills Covered: Proper nouns (song, building), Apostrophe (contraction), Homophone
(fair), Quotation marks (song), Verb (sing), Maintenance of active voice
CORRECTED SENTENCE