Dot dot dot
Is punctuation missing in the sentence below?
If she ever gets the chance Terri would love to visit the Egyptian pyramids.
Yes.
If she ever gets the chance, Terri would love to visit the Egyptian pyramids.
What relationship is indicated by this subordinating conjunction?
You will not pass the test unless you study.
Condition - unless
What is wrong in this sentence?
The book was read by the student.
It is in passive voice
She studied diligently for weeks she passed the exam with flying colors.
Add a coordinating conjunction OR add a semicolon
I modify verbs, but I can also modify the occasional adjective.
An adverb
Place a colon and commas in the sentence below
Because the storm damaged the main power lines early in the morning, the city center ground to a complete halt traffic lights went dark subways stopped running and businesses closed down.
Because the storm damaged the main power lines early in the morning, the city center ground to a complete halt: traffic lights went dark, subways stopped running, and businesses closed down.
Is this an independent or dependent clause?
While the rest of the team was sleeping
Dependent Clause
What is wrong in this sentence?
Because the rain never stopped.
It is a dependent clause, not a complete sentence.
She arrived on time for the interview, the office was completely empty.
Add a subordinating conjunction
I hang in the air and make words hug it out. What am I?
An apostrophe
What are the three ways to use a semi-colon?
1) to seperate complex lists
2) to join related independent clauses
3) to use before conjunctive adverbs ("however")
What is the italicized part of the sentence?
The experienced lead engineer who designed the architecture and the junior developers who wrote the frontend code collaborated to fix the system outage.
Compound Subject
What is wrong in this sentence?
Walking down the street, the skyscraper came into view.
This is a sentence with a misplaced modifier.
The report on the findings of the committee about the budget for the project during the summer was left on the table in the office.
Subtract a couple of prepositions
I am a group of words working together and making grammatical sense but I do not have a subject. What am I?
A phrase
Place punctuation in the sentence below
That's stupid he said I'm not four
“That's stupid,” he said. “I'm not four.”
What is the italicized part of the sentence?
Predicate Nominative
What is wrong with this sentence?
I went to the store to buy some milk and bread then I realized I forgot my wallet at home so I had to drive all the way back to get it.
It is a run-on sentence.
We need to review the quarterly budget, update the marketing plan and schedule the client call.
Add an oxford comma
I am in a sentence to show the relationship between nouns and other words. There are three types of me.
A preposition
Name four things you should proof-read for in a piece of writing.
Correct Punctuation / capitalization
Correct spacing / formatting
Spelling mistakes
Unnecessary words / incorrect word order
What is the italicized part of the sentence?
Driven by a sudden burst of creative inspiration, the architect stayed up all night sketching the blueprint.
Modifier phrase
What is wrong with this sentence?
Hungry and tired, the refrigerator was completely empty.
It is a sentence with a dangling modifier.
The brilliantly bright, blindingly radiant afternoon sun intensely beat down upon the dry, cracked, completely desolate desert floor, making the dizzy, dangerously dehydrated, exhausted hikers move at an agonizingly sluggish pace.
please subtract some modifiers . holy paragraph
I am in the sentence and I received something from another object
I am an indirect object