Day 1
In his short story The Devil and Tom Walker, Washington Irving reworks a
german folk tale about a man who sells his soul to the devil.
Tom makes a deal with the devil so he can become rich.
Capitalization of proper adjective
Use of quotation marks with title of a short story
Correct subordinating conjunction
Day 1
In his short story "The Devil and Tom Walker," Washington Irving reworks a
German folk tale about a man who sells his soul to the devil.
Quotation marks around short story title
Capitalization of proper adjective
Tom makes a deal with the devil so that he can become rich.
Correct subordinating conjunction
Day 2
This is the most unique story about the devil because this one is
funnier than any story like it.
Tom's wife tries to sell her soul to the devil for a few dollars worth
of teapots and spoons.
Use of apostrophe with amount of money that modifies a noun
Revision of an illogical comparison
Elimination of superlative form of absolute adjective
Day 2
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the most
This is a unique story about the devil because this story is funnier than any
other one like it.
Elimination of superlative form of absolute adjective
Revision of an illogical comparison
Tom's wife tries to sell her soul to the devil for a few dollars' worth of teapots
and spoons.
Use of apostrophe with amount of money that modifies a noun
Day 3
The devil fought with Mrs Walker, and took all the goods she had
brought to trade.
It was a really awful fight, which ended with handsful of the devil's hair
scattered all around.
Correct plural of compound word
Use of period after abbreviation of title
Elimination of comma in compound predicate
Day 3
The devil fought with Mrs. Walker and took all the goods she had brought to
trade.
Use of period after abbreviation of title
Elimination of comma in compound predicate
It was a really awful fight, which ended with handfuls of the devil's hair
scattered all around.
Correct plural of compound word
Day 4
Tom agreed to turn usurer based on the conditions set forth by the
devil. Soon, many people losing money to Tom.
In fact, without any urging from the devil, Tom hisself stoled money from
many of his neighbors.
Correct form of intensive pronoun
Correction of sentence fragment
Formation of irregular verb tense
Day 4
Tom agreed to turn usurer based on the conditions set forth by the devil.
Soon, many people were losing money to Tom.
Correction of a sentence fragment
In fact, without any urging from the devil, Tom himself stole money from
many of his neighbors.
Correct form of intensive pronoun
Formation of irregular verb tense
Day 5
Tom Walker he caused his own downfall in the end.
"The Devil take me, Tom said, If I have made a farthing!"
Elimination of double subject
Use of quotation marks in a split quotation
Correct capitalization in a split quotation
Day 5
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he
Tom Walker caused his own downfall in the end.
Elimination of double subject
"The Devil take me," Tom said, "if I have made a farthing!"
Correct capitalization in a split quotation
Use of quotation marks in a split quotation