Day 1
Richard Wright is like the most famous if not the finest African
American novelist of the thirties.
Native Son the standard by which all other black writers
measure
themselves catapulted Wright to international fame.
Use of commas to set off antithetical
Use of dashes before explanatory
element
information
Use of adverb to modify
adjective
Day 1
Richard Wright is likely the most famous, if not the finest, African
American novelist of the thirties.
Use of adverb to modify
adjective
Use of commas to set off antithetical
element
Native Son-the standard by which all other black writers measure
themselves-catapulted Wright to international fame.
Use of dashes before explanatory
information
Day 2
Richard Wright’s family was so poor that they couldn’t scarcely provide
enough food for him when he was a child.
A jack of all trades, Wright supported himself by working in an optical
company a cafeteria and a post office.
Use of hyphens in compound
noun
Use
of commas in a
series Elimination of double
negative
Day 2
Richard Wright’s family was so poor that they could scarcely provide
enough food for him when he was a child.
Elimination of double
negative
A jack-of- all-trades, Wright supported himself by working in an optical
company, a cafeteria, and a post office.
Use of hyphens in compound
nounof commas in a
Use
series
Day 3
Author Richard Wright found that he could’nt overcome racial prejudice
in the United States.
In 1947 he immigrated from America to France and soon fit in like he
had
lived there for years.
Correction of commonly confused
wordsCorrect use of apostrophe with
contraction
Correct subordinating
conjunction
Day 3
Author Richard Wright found that he couldn’t overcome racial
prejudice in the United States.
Correct use of apostrophe with
contraction
In 1947 he emigrated from America to France and soon fit in as if he
had lived there for years.
Correction of commonly confused
words subordinating
Correct
conjunction
Day 4
Everyone has their favorite American novel, but many readers
beside me admire Wright’s novel Native Son.
Its a thick book about a young man caught up by forces beyond his
control
and understanding.
Correction of commonly confused
words Use of underlining or italics with title of
Pronoun agreement with
novel
antecedent
Correction of commonly confused
words
Day 4
Everyone has his or her favorite American novel, but many
readers besides me admire Wright’s novel Native Son.
Pronoun agreement with
Correction
antecedentof commonly confused
Use of underlining or italics with title of
words
novel
It’s a thick book about a young man caught up by forces beyond his
control and understanding.
Correction of commonly confused
words
Day 5
In his autobiography Black Boy Richard Wright telled of his first
attempts at writing, and being accepted as a writer.
Black Boy was made into a movie. Which I would like to
see.
Formation of irregular verb
tenseof comma in compound
Elimination
Correction of sentence
construction
fragment
Use
of comma after introductory
phrase
Day 5
In his autobiography Black Boy, Richard Wright told of his
first attempts at writing and being accepted as a writer.
Use of comma after introductory
phrase
Formation
of irregular verb
tense
Elimination
of comma in compound
construction
Black Boy was made into a movie, which I would like to
see.
Correction of sentence
fragment