Day 1
The writer, Herman Melville, published Moby Dick in 1851.
Melville opens his epic book as follows Call me Ishmael. Some years ago
never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and
nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little
and see the water part of the world.
Use of dashes with interrupter
Elimination of commas with restrictive appositive
Use of colon to introduce long or formal quotation
Day 1
The writer Herman Melville published Moby Dick in 1851.
Elimination of commas with restrictive appositive
Melville opens his epic book as follows:
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago-never mind how long preciselyhaving little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to
interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the water
part
of the world.
Use of colon to introduce long or formal quotation
Use of dashes with interrupter
Day 2
“Robert to who was Melville referring in the opening chapter of Moby Dick?”
the teacher asked.
“Im not sure, but I think he was talking about the narrator,” Robert answered.
Use of comma to set off direct address
Correct pronoun case
Use of apostrophe in a contraction
Day 2
“Robert, to whom was Melville referring in the opening chapter of Moby
Dick?” the teacher asked.
Use of comma to set off direct address
Correct pronoun case
“I’m not sure, but I think he was talking about the narrator,” Robert
answered.
Use of apostrophe in a contraction
Day 3
Because Moby Dick attacked Captain Ahab he went after the whale.
When all the whalers understood Ahab’s obsession with the whale. They were
afraid that Ahab would lead them to their death.
Use of comma after introductory subordinate clause
Correction of unclear pronoun reference
Correction of sentence fragment
Day 3
Because Moby Dick attacked Captain Ahab, Ahab went after the whale.
Use of comma after introductory subordinate clause
Correction of unclear pronoun reference
When all the whalers understood Ahab’s obsession with the whale, they were
afraid that Ahab would lead them to their death.
Correction of sentence fragment
Day 4
Many important judgements about a ship’s crew depends on the ship’s
captain.
Since the previous voyages of the Pequod went so well, the final disaster
came without warning to the captain and his crew.
Subject and verb agreement
Correction of commonly misspelled words
Verb tense compatibility
Day 4
Many important judgments about a ship’s crew depend on the ship’s captain.
Correction of commonly misspelled words
Subject and verb agreement
Since the previous voyages of the Pequod had gone so well, the final disaster
came without warning to the captain and his crew.
Verb tense compatibility
Day 5
Charles found out more information about whaling by writing to the Cold
Spring Harbor Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor New York.
The museum is located North of Route 25A, and opens at 10 oclock every
day.
Elimination of unnecessary capitalization in name of a direction
Elimination of unnecessary comma in compound construction
Use of commas to separate parts of an address
Use of apostrophe in a contraction
Day 5
Charles found out more information about whaling by writing to the Cold
Spring Harbor Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
Use of commas to separate parts of an address
The museum is located north of Route 25A and opens at 10 o’clock every day.
Elimination of unnecessary capitalization in name of a direction
Elimination of unnecessary comma in compound construction
Use of apostrophe in a contraction