Word Choice
Punctuation 1
Punctuation 2
Usage
Structure
100
Did you catch my illusion to the Bible?
What is illusion should be allusion.
100
Determined to make their flight on time they rose at dawn.
What is comma missing after "time"?
100
Miranda drove her brother and he mother waited at home.
What is comma needed before a conjunction connecting two independent clauses.
100
Martin searched for a great horned owl. He wants to take its picture.
What is unnecessary shift in verb tense.
100
The American colonists resisted British taxation. And started the American Revolution.
What is the second sentence is a fragment?
200
Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queen" is a magnificent sixteenth-century allergy.
What is allergy should be allegory?
200
Many children of working parents, walk home from school by themselves.
What is no comma is wanted after the restrictive phrase "working parents"?
200
The students rushed the field, they tore down the goalposts,
What is a comma splice?
200
Maria left their shoes at the door.
What is faulty pronoun-antecedent agreement,
200
We visited the park. Where we threw the Frisbee.
What is the second sentence is a fragment.
300
When the professor gave me an "F" on my paper, he inferred that I had not spent enough time on it.
What is "inferred" should be "implied"?
300
This social scourge can be seen in urban areas, and in rural outposts.
What is no comma needed before "and"if it is not followed by an independent clause.
300
Repeated viral infections compromise doctors immune systems.
What is "doctors" is a possessive and should have an apostrophe after the "s"?
300
The article describes eighteenth century theater.
What is a compound adjective requires a hyphen when it modifies a noun that follows it: eighteenth-century theater?
300
He wondered what the decision meant he thought about it all night.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
When I procrastinated about starting my term paper, the undesirable affect was that I flunked the class.
What is "affect" should be "effect"?
400
The students asked their TAs to review, the assignment rubric, a sample paper, and their comments, before the end of the semester.
What is no commas needed before the first or after the last items in a series?
400
The chef lifted the skillet off it's hook. Its a fourteen-inch copper skillet.
What is the "it's" should be "its" and the "its" should be "it's"?
400
The dealers want to buy-back the computers and refurbish them.
What is a two-word verb phrase should not be hyphenated: buy back?
400
The information that families have access to is what financial aid is available and thinking about the classes available, and how to register.
What is faulty parallel structure?
500
She massaged her face with cold cream daily to maintain a glowing, juvenile appearance.
What is "juvenile" has a connotation of not just youth but immaturity.
500
David who loved to read history was the first to head to the library.
What is commas need to set of non-restrictive phrase?
500
Financial Aid is a pressing concern for many university students.
What is "Aid" should not be capitalized. It is not a proper noun.
500
An award-winning 2009 study on friendship "allows us to understand how indeed, in the case of humans, the whole comes to be greater than the sum of the parts" (Christakis 26).
What is the quotation is not properly introduced or integrated into the text and is also not a good quote and should be paraphrased?
500
As a boy my father took me walking.
What is a dangling modifier?
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