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DOL # 21-30
English I
21. arent their a lot of quoted passages in youre paragraph richard
Skills covered: Apostrophe (contradiction), Homophones (there, your), Spelling (a lot),
Comma (direct address), Proper noun (person), Question mark
Corrected Sentence:
22. the students had sold many pizzas the trip doesnt cost them to much
Skills covered: Subordinate, Comma (introductory adverbial clause), Maintenance of
tense, Apostrophe (contradiction), Homophone (too)
Corrected Sentence:
23. irregardless of the similarities youve noted the new york post is different than the new
york daily news
Skills covered: Regardless not irregardless, Apostrophe (contradiction), Comma
(introductory adverbial clause), Proper nouns (newspapers), Underline (newspapers),
Different from not than
Corrected Sentence:
24. nancy washed the car folds the newspapers and then she delivers it
Skills covered: Commas (series), Maintenance of tense, Parallelism, Pronoun-antecedent
agreement
Corrected Sentence:
25. hurrying across the street the brownish red car almost hit larry
Skills covered: Comma (introductory participle phrase), Hyphen (compound adjective),
proper noun (person), Dangling modifier
Corected Sentence:
26. he has a bite on his line janice exclaimed as she runs to help her Brother
Skills covered: Quotation marks (direct quotation), Exclamation point, Proper noun
(person), Maintenance of tense, Common noun
Corrected Sentence:
27. the boston common a public area in downtown boston is the main setting for the short
story the patriot
Skills covered: Proper nouns (place, city, short story), Commas (appositive), Quotation
marks (short story)
Corrected Sentence:
28. because my mom and dad believe I want to move when us kids are grown
Skills covered: Correct vs. incorrect beginning, Commas (parenthetical expression),
Capitalize I, Pronoun (case)
Corrected Sentence:
29. the television show the price is right is on to early im still at school when it begin
Skills covered: Proper noun (TV series), Underline (TV series), Homophone (too),
Semicolon (separate two main clauses), Capitalize I, Apostrophe (contraction), Subjectverb agreement
Corrected Sentence:
30. david reckless drived the car into the lot flinged the door open hurriedly and then he
rushes into the building
Skills covered: Adverb (recklessly), Verbs (drive, fling), Commas (series), Parallelism,
Maintenance of tense
Corrected Sentence: