NAME__________________________________________PERIOD__________
DOL # 11-20
English I
11. because we may of drank the apple juice but we didnt touch the lemonade
Skills Covered: Correct vs. Incorrect beginning, Enunciation (may have), Verb
(drink), Comma (before but in compound sentence), Apostrophe (contraction)
Corrected Sentence:
12. jim dont want nothing returned but time and sports illustrated the 2 magazines that he
give to them students
Skills Covered: Subject-verb agreement, Apostrophe (contraction), Single vs. double
negative, Proper nouns (magazines), Underline (magazines), Comma (appositive), Write
out numbers below 100, Maintenance of tense, Determiner
Corrected Sentence:
13. susan exclaimed heatedly the better of them three children didnt even place in that
there contest
Skills Covered: Comma (direct quotation), Quotation marks (direct quotation), Capitalize
first word of direct quotation, Superlative degree, Determiners, Apostrophe (contraction),
and Exclamation point
Corrected Sentence:
14. the pipe bursted during the morning during the afternoon dad founded a plumber to
repair them
Skills Covered: Words often confused (burst, bust), Semicolon (separate two main
clauses), Proper noun (relationship), Verb (find), Pronoun-Antecedent
Corrected Sentence:
15. the woman who was the one wearing the green hat should of brung her mother and
father with she
Skills Covered: Enunciation (should, have), Verb (bring), Pronoun (case), Reduction
(deadwood)
Corrected Sentence:
16. the american indian have knowed for a long time what it means to be persecuted dont
you think
Skills Covered: Proper adjective (nationality), Proper noun (race), Subject-verb
agreement, Verb (know), Comma (tag question), Apostrophe (Contraction), Question
mark
Corrected Sentence:
17. the spirit of st louis was the plan whom lindbergh flies across the atlantic
Skills Covered: Proper nouns (plane, person, ocean), period (abbreviation), Underline
(airplane), Pronoun (case), Maintenance of tense
Corrected Sentence:
18. dissecting earthworms is the name of a article in this biology magazine do you want
to read them
Skills Covered: Proper Noun (title), Quotation Marks (article), Article, Common Noun,
Period (avoidance of run-on sentence), Pronoun-antecedent agreement, Question Mark
Corrected Sentence:
19. 22 students should of did the following read the report outlined it and the should of
wrote a paper
Skills Covered. Write out numbers at the beginning of a sentence, hyphen (compound
numbers), Enunciation (should have), Verb (do), Colon, (series), Comma (series),
Parallelism
Corrected Sentence:
20. mom stated you could of raise the window for more air or you could of open the door
for more air
Skills Covered: Comma (direct quotation), Quotation Marks ( direct quotation),
Enunciation, (could have), Verbs (raise, open) Reduction (compound predicate)
Corrected Sentence: